very superficial comparison of the Compendium of Gilbert with the Lilium Medicinae of Gordon to establish the fact that the books are entirely unlike.  Indeed, it may be truthfully said that Gordon’s work does not contain a single chapter on surgery proper.  His cases involving surgical assistance are turned over at once, and with little or no discussion, to those whom he calls “restauratores” or “chirurgi,” and his own responsibility thereupon ends.

We have no historical facts which demonstrate that Gilbert’s Compendium exercised any considerable influence upon the development of surgery in England, but when we consider the depressed condition of both medicine and surgery in his day, we should certainly emphasize the clearness of vision which led our author to indicate the natural association of these two departments of the healing art, and the assistance which each lends to the other.