 The epilogue to "De urinis" is a particularly bitter denunciation of Montpellier, its vain contentiousness and obliviousness to true science (), and even its people; one Medieval commentator explains this in terms of an unhappy visit to the city by Gilles.Gilles of Corbeil is the only teacher namely known of the University of Paris where he became a "magister" in the end of the 12th century.His brief poems "De urinis" (352 verses on uroscopy) and "De pulsibus" (380 verses on Galenic pulsology), based on treatises by Theophilus Protospatharius by way of the Articella, were intended as mnemonic aids for his students to memorize, reflecting his preoccupation with pedagogy.