Education
Tradition claims that he was educated at Montpelier, France.
Tradition claims that he was educated at Montpelier, France.
His work on the treatment of the fistula was first published in 1376. The following year, he published De cura oculorum. At this date, his work on clysters may have already been published.
He ranked as a Master of Surgery, a class below that of medieval doctors of physic, but above the grade of barbers and apothecaries, and he is reported to have introduced certain new methods of operating.