Medieval Medicine: A ReaderMedical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to students and scholars. The reader includes 21 illustrations and a glossary of medical terms. |
Contents
Healers and HealIng | 1 |
MediCal PRaCtiCes in a Changing WoRld | 23 |
the doctor as Connoisseur of Pulses and urines | 38 |
ChRistianitY disease | 47 |
John of Beverley | 59 |
Rituals oF healing | 67 |
MediCine in eaRlY Medieval | 73 |
MonastiC MediCine in the eaRlY Medieval | 81 |
Contested FRontieRs | 317 |
Jacques desparss Reservations about Medical | 323 |
a Florentine goldsmith and Medical alchemist | 331 |
What is disease? What is illness? | 337 |
Jean | 344 |
the enigma of Mental illness | 351 |
the Meaning of illness according to hilde | 357 |
Who Can helP? PhYsiCians | 361 |
Medical Facilities within an ideal | 94 |
the MediCal netWoRKs oF MissionaRies | 110 |
a Regional Case studY MediCine | 119 |
tHe advent and IMPact | 129 |
the Romance of translating arabic | 135 |
Bartholomaeus | 156 |
the Practice of Pharmacy Rationalized | 174 |
the Practice of Medicine | 179 |
The Trotula | 185 |
VIA SCOLARIS MediCine in | 191 |
the university of arts and Medicine at Bologna | 197 |
arnau of vilanova argues that Medicine | 211 |
henri of Mondeville on Progress | 220 |
Mondino | 231 |
anatomical | 237 |
Bartholomaeus anglicus on diseases | 248 |
theoRY and PRaCtiCe | 255 |
the Case of epilepsy | 263 |
John of gaddesden on smallpox | 269 |
Bernard of gordon | 275 |
lanfranc of Milans scholastic | 281 |
lanfranc of Milan defends the intellectual | 288 |
guy of Chauliacs history | 296 |
teodorico Borgognoni and the new surgical | 306 |
ophthalmic surgery | 313 |
the Faculty of Medicine of Paris vs Jean domrémi | 369 |
the Case of Provence | 380 |
What Can theY do? CliniCal | 387 |
Precept according to arnau | 393 |
Medical Experimenta Proven Remedies by arnau | 401 |
the Medieval Medical Consilium 2 | 410 |
guy of Chauliac on the Black | 419 |
John of Burgundys Treatise | 422 |
the ethiCs oF MediCal CaRe 1 | 431 |
Malpractice in Crusader | 445 |
examining and supervising | 452 |
the ethiCs oF MediCal CaRe 2 | 461 |
a twelfth | 471 |
John of Mirfeld at st Bar | 478 |
the Cultivation oF health | 485 |
aldobrandino of siena on health through | 493 |
the army on Campaign | 501 |
the Tacuinum sanitatis | 507 |
satiRes and CRitiQues | 525 |
Petrarch lashes out against the doctors | 531 |
the doctor as Comic Relief in the Croxton Play of | 537 |
glossaRY | 543 |
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souRCes | 559 |
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