In al this world ne was ther noon hym lik,
To speke of phisik and of surgerye.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue. Chaucer engages in some irony and satire here when he says that there is nobody in the world better in speaking about medicine and surgery than the Physician. This is not to say he is the world’s best practitioner of medicine, but merely best at talking about it, suggesting he is a bit of a boaster