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ilasbern Europe. It is significant, hotfever, that his
wand.erings r^rere constant and- la-sied f or years. His
formal stuciies took him to the Uni-versities of tüUingen;
ivlontpelli-er, where Arab medicine was taught; Seville under
iuloroccan and i'loorish inf'luences; Ferrara, Salaiäanca; and
the sorbonne, the sea-t of orthodoxy" It is said that
when in England he utterly ignored Qxford and Cambridge,
for not one of atl .bhese schools of higher learning
sabisfied his quest"
After some years of rvantlering as a scholar, of
rnonths and years oí study, disputation, and first-ha.nd
ex.perience with the life forces about him, he acquired
his civic rights (Burgerrecht) in Strassburg ancl settted
down as â Surgeon" Yet for him the search for truth re-
mained unending, and together l,¡ith his often unwelcome
presence among men inrho were either practising or
proclaiming the old patent theories, it caused him to
move ever onv¡ard. To sing}e out just one instance: in
L525 1,he aldermen of rngolstad-t implored him to leave
the city afber the miraculous cure of a paralyzed girl,
for popular rumor had taken root that he was really the
infamous Dr, I-austus r¡¡ho had bartered his soul vrith the
devj-I for strange occult poìrlrers" His conternporaries,
either through conviction or professional jealousy, held
him for a elonder-healer and sorcerer, but the conflicb