Still more striking evidence of their influence is found in the text-book of Ferrari, which was printed in 1471 and had been circulated earlier in MS.

In it Avicenna is quoted more than 3000 times, Rhazes and Galen 1000, Hippocrates only 140 times.

Professor Ferrari was a man who played an important role in the university, and had a large consultation practice.

You will be interested to know what sort of advice he gave in special cases.

I have the record of an elaborate consultation written in his own hand, from which one may gather what a formidable thing it was to fall into the hands of a mediaeval physician.