In both there was the blunt honesty that so often characterizes a good surgeon, and I commend to modern surgeons de Mondeville's saying: "If you have operated conscientiously on the rich for a proper fee, and on the poor for charity, you need not play the monk, nor make pilgrimages for your soul." (20) Allbutt: Historical Relations of Medicine and Surgery, London, Macmillan Co., 1905.
One other great mediaeval physician may be mentioned, Peter of Abano (a small town near Padua, famous for its baths).

He is the first in a long line of distinguished physicians connected with the great school of Padua.

Known as "the Conciliator," from his attempt to reconcile the diverse views on philosophy and medicine, he had an extraordinary reputation as a practitioner and author, the persistence of which is well illustrated by the fact that eight of the one hundred and eighty-two medical books printed before 1481 were from his pen.

He seems to have taught medicine in Paris, Bologna and Padua.

He was a devoted astrologer, had a reputation among the people as a magician and, like his contemporary, Arnold of Villanova, came into conflict with the Church and appears to have been several times before the Inquisition; indeed it is said that he escaped the stake only by a timely death.
He was a prolific commentator on Aristotle, and his exposition of the "problems" had a great vogue.