One of the important writers of Montpellier was Gilbertus Anglicus (Gilbert the Englishman), who is called in one of the old translations of Mesue Doctor _Desideratissimus_, which I suppose might be Anglicized "loveliest of doctors." After his studies in England he went for graduate work to some of the famous foreign universities, and is named as a chancellor of Montpellier. His best-known work is his "Compendium Medicinæ," which bore as its full title "The Compendium of Medicine of Gilbert the Englishman; useful not only to physicians, but to clergymen for the treatment of all and every disease." Gurlt says that it contains little that is original, being a copy of Roger of Parma and Theodoric of Lucca, with a number of quotations from the Arabs, nearly all of whom Gilbert seems to have read with considerable attention. It is interesting to find that Gilbert was definitely of the opinion that cancer is incurable except by incision or cauterization. He declares that it yields to no medicine except surgery. Another of the men whose names are connected with Montpellier was John of Gaddesden, often called _Joannes Anglicus_. He was a student of Merton College, and received his degree of doctor of medicine at Oxford. He studied afterwards at Montpellier and also at Paris, and settled down to practise in London. He treated the son of King Edward II. for smallpox, and having wrapped him in red cloth and made all the hangings of his bed red, so that the patient was completely surrounded by this colour, he declared that he made "a good cure, and I cured him without any vestiges of the pocks." The treatment is interesting, as an anticipation in a certain way of Finsen's red light treatment for smallpox in our own time. Hanging the room, and especially the doors and the windows, with red when smallpox was to be treated was a favourite treatment down at Montpellier. Gaddesden's book is called by the somewhat fanciful name "Rosa Anglica." Bernard Gordon of Montpellier had written a "Lilium Medicinæ," and we have a "Flos Medicinæ" from Salerno, so that flower names for medical textbooks were evidently the fashion of the time. Gaddesden's book is almost entirely a compilation, and except in the relation of his surgical experience, contains little that is new. Guy de Chauliac was quite impatient with it, and declared that "lately there had arisen a foolish Anglican rose which was sent to me and I looked it over. I expected to find the odour of sweetness in it, but I found only some old fables." The criticism is, however, as Gurlt remarks, too severe and not quite justified, representing rather Guy's high ideal of the originality that a new textbook should possess, than a legitimate critical opinion. If our own textbooks were to be judged by any such lofty standard, most of them would suffer rather severely.