Gaddesden Place-geograph-1948455-by-Tom-Presland
Gaddesden may refer to: People * John of Gaddesden, English physician Places ;England * Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire ** Gaddesden Place, country house in the above village * Little Gaddesden Little Gaddesden (pronounced ) is a village and civil parish in the borough of Dacorum, Hertfordshire north of Berkhamsted. As well as Little Gaddesden village (population 694), the parish contains the settlements of Ashridge (population 53), ...

John Of Gaddesden
John of Gaddesden (1280–1361) was a medieval English physician. He wrote a treatise on medicine titled ''Rosa Medicinae'' (''The Rose of Medicine''), also called Rosa Anglica ("The English Rose"), between 1304 and 1317, considered to be the first English textbook of medicine. 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. 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". Career John of Gaddesden was born about 1280, and wrote in the early part of the fourteenth century. He took his name from Gaddesden on the borders of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, where an ancient house, opposite that gate of Ashridge Park which is nearest to the church of Little Gaddesden, is shown as his. He was a member of Merton Co ...
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