[The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookThe Cloister and the Hearth CHAPTER XXVI 13/23
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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