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JOHN etc.] KEYS See also:CAIUS [Anglice KEES (1510-1573)  , See also:English physician, and second founder of the See also:present Gonville and See also:Caius See also:College, See also:Cambridge, was See also:born at See also:Norwich on the 6th of See also:October 1510 . He was admitted a student at what was then Gonville See also:Hall, Cambridge, where he seems to have mainly studied divinity . After graduating in 1533, he visited See also:Italy, where he studied under the celebrated Montanus and Vesalius at See also:Padua; and in 1541 he took his degree in physic at Padua . In 1543 he visited several parts of Italy, See also:Germany and See also:France; and re-turned to See also:England . He was a physician in See also:London in 1547, and was admitted See also:fellow of the College of Physicians, of which he was for many years See also:president . In 1557, being then physician to See also:Queen See also:Mary, he enlarged the See also:foundation of his old college, changed the name from " Gonville Hall " to " Gonville ilnd Caius College," and endowed it with several considerable estates, adding an entire new See also:court at the expense of £1834 . Of this college he accepted the mastership (24th of See also:January x558/9) on the See also:death of Dr See also:Bacon, and held it till about a See also:month before his death . He was physician to See also:Edward VI., Queen Mary and Queen See also:Elizabeth . He returned to Cambridge from London for a few days in See also:June 1573, about a month before his death, and resigned the mastership to Dr See also:Legge, a See also:tutor at Jesus College . He died at his London See also:House, in St See also:Bartholomew's, on the 29th of See also:July, 1573, but his See also:body was brought to Cambridge, and buried in the See also:chapel under the well-known See also:monument which he had designed . Dr Caius was a learned, active and benevolent See also:man . In 1557 he erected a monument in St See also:Paul's to the memory of See also:Linacre .

In 1564 he obtained a See also:

grant for Gonville and Caius College to take the bodies of two malefactors annually for See also:dissection; he was thus an important See also:pioneer in advancing the See also:science of See also:anatomy . He probably devised, and certainly presented, the See also:silver See also:caduceus now in the See also:possession of Caius College as See also:part of its insignia; he first gave it to the College of Physicians, and afterwards presented the London College with another . His See also:works are: See also:Annals of the College from 1555 to 1372; See also:translation of several of See also:Galen's works, printed at different times abroad . See also:Hippocrates de Medicamentis, first discovered and published by Dr Caius; also De Ratione Victus (Lov . 1556, 8vo) . De Mendeti Methodo (See also:Basel, 1554; London, 1556, 8vo) . See also:Account of the Sweating Sickness in England (London, 1556, 1721), (it is entitled De Ephemera Britannica) . See also:History of the University of Cambridge (London, 1568, Svo; 1574, 4t0, in Latin) . De Thermis Britannicis; but it is doubtful whether this See also:work was ever printed . Of some Rare See also:Plants and Animals (London, 1570) . De Canibus Britannicis (1570, 1729) . De Pronunciatione Graecae et Latinae Linguae (London, 1574) ; De Libris propriis (London, 1570) .

He also wrote numerous other works which were never printed . For further details see the See also:

Biographical History of Caius College, an admirable piece of See also:historical work, by Dr See also:John See also:Venn (1897) .

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