John of Gaddesden
English physician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John of Gaddesden (1280–1361)[1] was a medieval English physician.[1][2][3] He wrote a treatise on medicine titled Rosa Medicinae (The Rose of Medicine), also called Rosa Anglica ("The English Rose"), between 1304 and 1317,[2][3] considered to be the first English textbook of medicine.[2] John of Gaddesden was also a Roman Catholic theologian, a fellow at Merton College, Oxford, a physician for members of the British royal family, and one of the most celebrated medical authorities of his time.[2] His medical works, alongside those of Gilbertus Anglicus, "formed part of the core curriculum that underpinned the practice of medicine for the next 400 years".[1]