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THE MIDDLE AGES.
who lived at that time* Bishop ADALBERT obtained
instruction, from the doctors who taught medicine in
Montpellier, upon the causes of natural phenomena and
of diseases, certainly " not with the object of making
money from the knowledge of these matters but only in
order to learn to understand the deeply hidden meaning of
things " as his biographer adds.
In a letter of ST. BERNARD written in 1153 it is
narrated that the Archbishop of Lyons, being ill, repaired
to Montpellier, to be under the treatment of the doctors
there, and on this occasion not only spent what he had
with him but ran into debt-t JEAN DE SALISBURY, who
also belonged to that period, stated that those who wished
to devote themselves to medicine acquired the knowledge
necessary for this at Salerno or Montpellier. So too^
yEGIDIUS VON CORBEIL and HARTMANN VON DER AUE
have borne witness to. the ancient renown of the school of
Montpellier. ;
The Monk C^ESARIUS VON HEISTERBACH called Montpellier
the " Fountain of Medical Wisdom " and remarked
with regret that the doctors of that school would not believe
in miracle-healing even speaking of it in an ironical way.
In the year 1180 WILLIAM IV., Count of Montpellier
promulgated a decree that anyone " whoever or of what,
ever origin he might be, should have the right of giving
medical instruction there without being called to account
by anyone." J Although as a result of this the medical
school arose into great prominence, still unlimited freedom
* Anselmi episcopi Havelbergensis vita Adelberti Moguntini in Bibl. rer.
german. ed PH. JAFFE, Berol. 1866, iii, 592.—A. DUBOUCHET: Un document
curieux sur l'ecole de medecine de Montpellier in the Gazette hebd. des sciences
m&l. de Montpellier, 10 Juli 1886.
f Expendit et quod habebat et quod non habebat in BERNARD. Epist. 307,
according to ASTRUC: Memoires pour servir k l'histoire de la faculte de
me'deeinede Montpellier, Paris 1767, p. 7.
X Mando, volo, laudo aique concedo in perpetiium, quod omues homines quicunque
sint vet undecunque sint sine aliqua interpellations regant scolas de Jisica
in Montepessulano. ASTRUC op. cit. p. 34.