Castigationes seu Emendationes

...physician. They also cite Cornelius Celsus, and Oribasius A 4th-century Greek medical compiler, the chief physician to the Emperor Julian. They cite Pliny and Serenus Sammonicus Author of a medical poem, Liber Medicinalis. But if leaders must sometimes be followed, I consider Antonius Musa Physician to Emperor Augustus the leader of all, and Celsus is to me as Hector was to Paris, as Ovid original: "Nasone," referring to Publius Ovidius Naso says: Though you give all things, you will never give a brother like Hector original: "Omnia si dederis, nunq̃ dabis Hectora fratrem." In this context, Champier means that while other authors provide much, Celsus is the indispensable protector of the art. This one man will be worth a countless army of soldiers.

Sects of Christian Physicians. Division II.

Decorative woodcut initial 'A' featuring architectural elements and floral scrollwork in the background.Those who follow the Attic style Atticissantes: A term for Humanist scholars who insisted on the purity of original Greek sources and rejected medieval or Arabic additions, criticizing all or most of the opinions of others, and approving of nothing that is not found in the "gardens" of Galen, Hippocrates, Paul of Aegina, or Oribasius, say that truly nothing in human life is more dangerous, nothing so pestilential and harmful, than for tender minds to be steeped in things which it would be worthwhile later to unlearn. This is why Timotheus, famous in the art of the flute (as Quintilian testifies), used to demand a double fee from students who had previously been poorly taught: one fee to teach the good points of the art, and another to help them unlearn their follies original: "dedoceret ineptias". Indeed, they propose that the best things are to be learned if this most health-giving knowledge is drawn rather from the fountains than the pools, from the Greeks rather than the Arabs, and from the ancients rather than the moderns...