John Caius

John Caius , actually John Keys , John Kay and John Kayse , Latinized John Caius (* 6. October 1510 in Norwich , † 29. July 1573 in London ) was an English anatomist and court physician, of the Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge with a donation.

Caius studied at the University of Cambridge until 1535 and received a Magister Artium . He traveled to Italy , studied at the University of Padua , was a student of Johannes Baptista Montanus and the important anatomist Andreas Vesal , and received his doctorate in medicine in 1541. Then from 1543 he visited Germany , his friend Conrad Gessner in Zurich , stayed in France and returned to England in 1545 . From 1547 he practiced as a doctor in London ; he treated the queens Maria I and Elizabeth I. In 1557 he donated 1,834 pounds sterling to enable the re-establishment of Gonville Hall . He taught there from 1558.

He wrote the first treatise on Britain's dogs .

Works

History of the University of Cambridge . London 1568.
De Thermis Britannicis; but it is doubtful whether this work was ever printed Of Some Rare Plants and Animals . London 1570.
De Canibus Britannicis . 1570, 1729.
De Pronunciatione Graecae et Latinae Linguae . London 1574.
De Libris propriis . London 1570.

Nicole Mayer: Caius, Johannes. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 228.

personal data
SURNAME	Caius, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Caius, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English court physician who re-established Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge with a donation
DATE OF BIRTH	October 6, 1510
PLACE OF BIRTH	Norwich
DATE OF DEATH	July 29, 1573
Place of death	London