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The first of these volumes offers a text of the last and greatest surgical encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (1363); the second analyzes its construction from earlier sources.
The text itself covers anatomy and the treatment of wounds, ulcers, fractures, dislocations, and a variety of other conditions and diseases, including not just surgical but medical procedures, which it discusses within a broad framework of medical (physiological and pathological) learning. In the commentary volume, the author's more than 3000 references to older medical authorities are traced to their sources and their use is discussed.
Together, the volumes illuminate the culmination of medieval surgery and its techniques in an academic setting and furnish a kind of chrestomathy of the whole range of literature known and cited in medieval medical faculties.
The text itself covers anatomy and the treatment of wounds, ulcers, fractures, dislocations, and a variety of other conditions and diseases, including not just surgical but medical procedures, which it discusses within a broad framework of medical (physiological and pathological) learning. In the commentary volume, the author's more than 3000 references to older medical authorities are traced to their sources and their use is discussed.
Together, the volumes illuminate the culmination of medieval surgery and its techniques in an academic setting and furnish a kind of chrestomathy of the whole range of literature known and cited in medieval medical faculties.
Price: $499.00
Pages: 486
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine
Publication Date:
01 December 1996
ISBN: 9789004107069
Format: Other
'Monument d'érudition, qui fournit les fondements pour de nombreux travaux ultérieurs…'
A. Touwaide, Scriptorium, 1998.
'All students of medieval medicine will find a vast store of information in these volumes…'
Charles Burnett, Medical History, 2000.
'No other publication in recent years has done as much to open up the practical dimension of later medieval medicine and surgery.'
Peter Murray Jones, Early Science and Medicine, 1999.
A. Touwaide, Scriptorium, 1998.
'All students of medieval medicine will find a vast store of information in these volumes…'
Charles Burnett, Medical History, 2000.
'No other publication in recent years has done as much to open up the practical dimension of later medieval medicine and surgery.'
Peter Murray Jones, Early Science and Medicine, 1999.
Michael R. McVaugh, Ph.D. (1965) in History (Princeton University) is Wiliam Smith Wells Professor of History at the University of North Carolina. He has published extensively on late medieval medicine, including Medicine Before the Plague (Cambridge, 1993).