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MEDICINE AMONG THE GERMANS. 189
Of especiaf interest is the rule contained therein, that the
doctor w 7 as entitled to demand a fee of 12 solidi for the
instruction in medicine which he gave his pupil; it is clear
from this that doctors were educated in their art under the
personal supervision of a master, just as was the case in
ancient times.
The law books of the Alemanni, the Salii, Ripuarii, Bur-
gundians, Bajoari, Frisians, Saxons, and Lombards contained
also regulations as to punishments for wounds inflicted upon,
and other offences committed against, the person.*
The training of doctors was consonant to the method of
teaching a trade. The tyro in medicine resigned himself to
a respectable doctor, who furnished him with medical infor­
mation. Many doctors sought to complete their knowledge
in the large towns of the Byzantine empire and Italy.
Many Greeks, Romans, and Jews were to be found among
them, and were especially in request at the courts of
princes.
ThetGreek doctor, PETRUSt was physician in ordinary to
the Visigothic King, THEODORIC II. MARILEIF of Poictiers
filled this post at the court of the Merovingians, having
raised himself to this position from the lowest social cir­
cumstances, and REOVAL, who had acquired his medical
training in Constantinople, enjoyed the same honour.J
The latter performed an operation for removal of the testes
with success.
The work of a physician in ordinary at the Ffankish
Court was certainly very profitable, as the riches acquired
by MARILEIF testify, but it was also attended with many
dangers. When AUSTRIGILDIS the wife of King GuNTRAM
was carried off by a pestilence which raged in the year 580,
she expressed a wish before her death that after that event
her two doctors, NlCOLAUS and DONATUS, should be
executed as a punishment for riot having saved her ; and
* Corpus juris German, antiq. ed., F. WALTER, Berbl. 1824, T. i.
t FREDEGAR : Chron., C. 27, O. ABEL'S translation.
X GREGORY of Tours v, 14. vii, 25. x, 15.