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The Cloister and the Hearth

CHAPTER XXVI
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Cuilibet in sua arte credendum est.

My whole life has been given to this art.

I studied at Montpelier; the first school in France, and by consequence in Europe.

There learned I Dririmancy, Scatomancy, Pathology, Therapeusis, and, greater than them all, Anatomy.

For there we disciples of Hippocrates and Galen had opportunities those great ancients never knew.
Goodbye, quadrupeds and apes, and paganism, and Mohammedanism; we bought of the churchwardens, we shook the gallows; we undid the sexton's work of dark nights, penetrated with love of science and our kind; all the authorities had their orders from Paris to wink; and they winked.


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