BERNARD2. Bernard de Gordon, fl. c. 1285-1308, a Scottish physician in Montpellier, was a contemporary of Gilbert the Englishman. In his Lilium Medicinae (The Lilies of Medicine) he defines the illness of heroic love or "hereos," gives the symptoms of the disease, and prescribes its cure. He warns that "hereos," if not treated quickly, leads to mania and death. In this work, he also describes spectacles for the first time. Eyeglasses were invented in Tuscany between 1280 and 1285. Merton College Library owned a copy of Lilium Medicinae between 1360 and 1385.
Bernard appears in the Doctor's catalogue of authorities, Gen Prol 434.
The name appears in initial position.