(25) Franklin: Recherches sur la Bibliotheque de la Faculte de
Medecine de Paris, 1864.
It is said that one of the special advantages that Montpellier had over
Paris was its possession of so many important MSS., particularly
those of the Arabian writers. Many "Compendia" were written containing
extracts from various writers, and no doubt these were extensively
copied and lent or sold to students. At Bologna and Padua, there were
regulations as to the price of these MSS. The university controlled the
production of them, and stationers were liable to fines for inaccurate
copies. The trade must have been extensive in those early days, as
Rashdall mentions that in 1323 there were twenty-eight sworn booksellers
in Paris, besides keepers of bookstalls in the open air.
MEDIAEVAL PRACTICE
THE Greek doctrine of the four humors colored all the conceptions of
disease; upon their harmony alone it was thought that health depended.
The four temperaments, sanguine, phlegmatic, bilious and melancholic,
corresponded with the prevalence of these humors. The body was composed
of certain so-called "naturals," seven in number--the elements,
the temperaments, the humors, the members or parts, the virtues
or faculties, the operations or functions and the spirits.
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