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Title: Gilbertus Anglicus

Medicine of the Thirteenth Century

Author: Henry Ebenezer Handerson

Release Date: June 30, 2005 [eBook #16155]

Language: English

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GILBERTUS ANGLICUS

Medicine of the Thirteenth Century

HENRY E. HANDERSON, A.M., M.D.

With a Biography of the Author

Published Posthumously

FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION

The Cleveland Medical Library Association

CLEVELAND, OHIO

1918

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Contents

Page

Frontispiece 5

Explanatory Foreword 7

Biography 9 -14

Resolutions of the Cleveland Medical Library Ass'n 15

Gilbertus Anglicus—A Study of Medicine in the Thirteenth Century 17 -78

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HENRY E. HANDERSON

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Explanatory Foreword

In the summer of 1916 the librarian of the Cleveland Medical Library received a manuscript

from Dr. Henry E. Handerson with the request that it be filed for reference in the archives of

the library. The librarian at once recognized the value of the paper and referred it to the

editorial board of the Cleveland Medical Journal, who sought the privilege of publishing it.

Dr. Handerson's consent was secured and the article was set in type. However, when the time

came for its publication the author was reluctant to have it appear since he was unable then to

read the proof, and because he felt that the material present might not be suitable for

publication in a clinical journal. To those who knew him, this painstaking attention to detail

and desire for accuracy presents itself as a familiar characteristic. Though actual publication

was postponed, the type forms were held, and when the Cleveland Medical Journal suspended

publication, its editorial board informed the Council of the Cleveland Medical Library

Association of the valuable material which it had been unable to give to the medical world. In

the meantime Dr. Handerson's death had occurred, but the Council obtained the generous

consent of the author's family to make this posthumous publication. It is hoped that those who

read will bear this fact in mind and will be lenient in the consideration of typographical errors,

of which the author was so fearful.

The Cleveland Medical Library Association feels that it is fortunate in being enabled to

present to its members and to others of the profession this work of Dr. Handerson's and to

create from his own labors a memorial to him who was once its president.

SAMUEL W. KELLEY.

CLYDE L. CUMMER.

Committee on Publication.

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Biography

HENRY EBENEZER HANDERSON

Owing to Dr. Handerson's modesty, even we who were for years associated with him in

medical college, in organization, and professional work, knew but little of him. He would

much rather discuss some fact or theory of medical science or some ancient worthy of the

profession than his own life. Seeing this tall venerable gentleman, sedate in manner and

philosophical in mind, presiding over the Cuyahoga County Medical Society or the Cleveland

Medical Library Association, few of the members ever pictured him as a fiery, youthful

Confederate officer, leading a charge at a run up-hill over fallen logs and brush, sounding the

"Rebel yell," leaping a hedge and alighting in a ten-foot ditch among Federal troopers who

surrendered to him and his comrades. Yet this is history. We could perhaps more easily have

recognized him even though in a military prison-pen, on finding him dispelling the tedium by

teaching his fellow prisoners Latin and Greek, or perusing a precious volume of Herodotus.

Henry Ebenezer Handerson was born on March 21, 1837, here in Cuyahoga county, in the

township of Orange, near the point now known as "Handerson's Cross-Roads," on the Chagrin

river. His mother's maiden name was Catharine Potts. His father was Thomas Handerson, son

of Ira Handerson. The family immigrated to Ohio from Columbia county, New York, in 1834.

Thos. Handerson died as the result of an accident in 1839, leaving the widow with five

children, the eldest thirteen years of age, to support. Henry and a sister were adopted by an

uncle, Lewis Handerson, a druggist, of Cleveland. In spite of a sickly childhood the boy went

to school a part of the time and at the age of fourteen was sent to a boarding school, Sanger

Hall, at New-Hartford, Oneida county, New York. Henry's poor health compelled him to

withdraw from school. No one at that time would have predicted that the delicate youth would

live to be the sage of four score years and one. With his foster father and family he moved to

Beersheba Springs, Grundy county, Tennessee.

In 1854, in good health, the boy returned to Cleveland, prepared for college, and entered

Hobart College, Geneva, New York, [pg 10] where he graduated as A.B. in 1858. Returning

to Tennessee, he occupied himself for about a year with surveying land and in other work and

then became private tutor in the family of Mr. Washington Compton on a cotton plantation

near Alexandria, Louisiana. There he remained a year or more, then in the autumn of 1860

matriculated in the Medical Department of the University of Louisiana (now Tulane

University), where he studied through the winter, and also heard much of the political oratory

of that exciting period.

The bombardment of Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861, followed by the call of President Lincoln

for 75,000 troops to suppress the rebellion, found young Handerson again employed as tutor,

this time in the family of General G. Mason Graham, a veteran of the Mexican war.

With his friends and acquaintances, Handerson joined a company of "homeguards" consisting

mostly of planters and their sons, formed for the purpose of maintaining "order among the

negroes and other suspicious characters of the vicinity."

Many years afterward Dr. Handerson wrote, in a narrative for his family, concerning this

period of his life: "Without any disposition to violent partisanship, I had favored the party of

which the standard-bearers were Bell and Everett and the battle cry 'The Constitution and the

Union,' and I had grieved sincerely over the defeat by the Radicals of the North, aided by the

'fire-eaters' of the South."

And again: "Born and educated in the North, I did not share in any degree the fears of the

Southerners over the election to the Presidency of Mr. Lincoln. I could not but think the

action of the seceding States unwise and dangerous to their future prosperity. On the other

hand, this action had already been taken, and without any prospect of its revocation. Indeed,

in the present frame of mind of the North, any steps toward recession seemed likely to

precipitate the very evils which the secession of the states had been designed to anticipate. I

believed slavery a disadvantage to the South, but no sin, and, in any event, an institution for

which the Southerners of the present day were not responsible. An inheritance from their fore-

fathers, properly administered, it was by no means an unmitigated evil, and it was one,

moreover, in which the North but a few years before had shared. All my interests, present and

future, apparently lay in the South and with Southerners, and if the seceding States, in one of

which I resided, chose deliberately to try the experiment of self-government, I felt quite

willing to give [pg 11] them such aid as lay in my feeble power. When I add to this that I was

24 years of age, and naturally affected largely by the ideas, the enthusiasm and the excitement

of my surroundings, it is easy to understand to what conclusions I was led."

So on June 17, 1861, he volunteered in the Stafford Guards under Capt. (afterward Brigadier

General) L.A. Stafford. The Guards became company B of the 9th Regiment of Louisiana

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