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John Caius
1510–1573
A leading Tudor physician and humanist, he served both Edward VI and Mary I and helped shape one of Cambridge’s enduring colleges. He is also remembered for writing one of the earliest English accounts of epidemic disease, based on the sweating sickness.
5 Audiobooks
De Rariorum Animalium atque Stirpium Historia
by John Caius
De Canibus Britannicis: Of Englishe Dogges
by John Caius
De Pronunciatione Graecae & Latinae Linguae
by John Caius
The Epidemics of the Middle Ages
by J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker, John Caius
About the author
Born in Norwich on 6 October 1510, John Caius studied at what was then Gonville Hall, Cambridge, and later trained in medicine in Italy, including at Padua. He became known as a learned physician and scholar, moving comfortably between medicine, classical learning, and university life.
Caius served as physician to Edward VI and later to Mary I, and he wrote A Boke or Counseill Against the Disease Commonly Called the Sweate in 1552, an important early description of the English sweating sickness. His interests were wide-ranging: besides medical works, he also wrote about natural history and the antiquity of the universities.
He is especially linked with Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, which he refounded and endowed in the sixteenth century, giving the college the form and name by which it is still known. He died in London on 29 July 1573, leaving behind a reputation as both a serious physician and a major benefactor of learning.