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Abstract：
William Butler (1535-1618) was a man without a medical degree who was styled as the \'greatest physician of his age\'. He was famous in his lifetime, and in the latter stages of his career was involved with the royal court, attending to King James I and his son, Prince Henry. Butler was an empiricist who practiced confidently and compassionately in a time of limited medical understanding. He was also a man of contradictions: he was loved and respected by his contemporaries but could be cantankerous and obtuse; he was anti-establishment, complaining bitterly about the restrictive monopolisation of medicine sustained by the Royal College of Physicians, but advanced his career via connections within the aristocracy; he sometimes practiced orthodox Galenic medicine, but was at times highly unconventional in his treatments. Posthumously, despite some compelling historical studies of Butler, there has been a great deal of embellishment of his behaviour and practice. This biography draws from Butler\'s own letters, contemporary writers and modern scholarly literature. It aims to arrange these sources into a verifiable narrative of this singular physician\'s life.
摘要：
威廉·巴特勒（WilliamButler，1535-1618）是一个没有医学学位的人，被称为“他这个时代最伟大的医生”。他一生中很出名，在他职业生涯的后期，他参与了皇家法院，国王詹姆斯一世和他的儿子,亨利王子巴特勒是一位经验主义者，他在医学理解有限的时代自信而富有同情心地实践。他也是一个矛盾的人：他受到同时代人的爱戴和尊重，但可能是脾气暴躁和迟钝的；他是反建制的，痛苦地抱怨皇家内科医学院对医学的限制性垄断，但通过贵族内部的联系推进了他的职业生涯；他有时练习正统的Galenic医学，但有时他的治疗非常非常规。死后,尽管对巴特勒进行了一些令人信服的历史研究，他的行为和实践有很多修饰。这本传记取材于巴特勒自己的信件，当代作家和现代学术文学。它的目的是将这些来源安排成一个可验证的叙述这个独特的医生的生活。
