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Title: Brooklyn medical journal.
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Medical Society of the County of Kings (Kings County, N.Y.)
Subjects: Medicine Surgery Medicine
Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Medical Society of Co. of Kings
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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JOHN CAIUS, CAY, KAY, KAYE, KEY, OR KEYE.So various are the forms by which the name of this distinguished physician and scholar are seen.He was born in Norwich, Eng., October 6, 1510. At an early age he entered Gonvil Hall, Cam-bridge, where he was distinguished for his application and scholarship, having at the age of twenty-one translated several works from Greek into Latin and others from Latin into English. From Cam-bridge he went to Italy, where he studied medicine under the learned Mont anus, at Padua, and soonbecame so eminent in ihat faculty as to become the public professor of Greek, upon which subject hecontinued to lecture for several years. While in Padua, Caius lodged in the same house with thecelebrated anatomist, Yesalius, and pursued his anatomical studies with an ardor equal to that ofhis companion. He took his medical degree at Padua, in 1541, and returning to England, he was in 1547. ad-mitted a lellow of the Royal College of Physicians, in which he successively hel

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