Black Bile. A Review of Recent Attempts to Trace the Origin of the Teachings on Melancholia to Medical Observations

the time'32-mainly the second half of the fourteenth century. Why these two 'medical' saints were so little regarded in England is-a mystery, especially when one considers their widespread cult almost throughout Europe and Asia Minor, particularly during the Middle Ages. The Surgeons of Paris, for example, dedicated their College to St. C8me on its foundation in the twelfth century but no similar dedication associated with the healing arts is heard of in England even when medicine began to be taught at Oxford, with the exception of the Barbers' Company and the Surgeons' Company in London. The few dedications of churches may be connected with a returned crusader or with the abbeys or monasteries possessing relics, e.g. Canterbury, where two of the churches, Blean and Challock, are within a few miles of the city and were possibly served oringially by monks from Canterbury, There may have been other churches with an original dedication to the two saints, in addition to those listed, but their rededication may have soon taken place, due perhaps to the unfamiliar names and the lack of knowledge of the lives of these two devoted physicians and surgeons.