On the Sects of Physicians

...and the opinions of the Arabs diametrically oppose the decrees of the best and ancient physicians, and thus for this reason they are deservedly condemned by the learned.

Two sects of the moderns: the Latins and the Barbarians.

A large decorative historiated initial 'L' containing a figure, possibly a child or scholar, seated among scrolling foliage.
Latin physicians are those who follow Hippocrates and Galen of Pergamum as the foremost and greatest physicians. Such were Alessandro Benedetti, most dear to us; Niccolò Leoniceno, most learned in every kind of discipline; Guillaume Cop, formerly our close associate and singular friend; Jean Ruel original: "Ruellius", Thomas Linacre original: "Linacrus", Lorenzo Laurenzi original: "Laurentianus", Leonhart Fuchs, Giovanni Manardi, Hubert Barlandus, Otto Brunfels, Jacques Dubois original: "Iacobus Sylvius", and Johann Winter of Andernach original: "Ioannes Guynterius".

A large decorative initial 'B' decorated with elaborate floral and foliate patterns.
Barbarian physicians are those who glorify Avicenna, Rhazes, Serapion, both Halys Referring to the influential Persian physicians Haly Abbas and Haly Abenragel, and Mesue as if they were the princes of medicine. Such were Peter of Abano original: "Petrus Aponensis", Gentile da Foligno original: "Fulginas Gentilis", Jacques Desparts original: "Iacobus de partibus", Bartolomeo Montagnana, Michele Savonarola, Antonio Cermisoni, Antonio Guaineri, Matteo da Grado original: "Matthæus a gradi", Bernard de Gordon, and Nicolaus.