Chapter I: Front Matter

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Medical History Manuals

_General Editor_--John D. Comrie, M.A., B.SC., M.D., F.R.C.P.E.

MEDIEVAL MEDICINE

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IN THE SAME SERIES

PASTEUR AND AFTER PASTEUR

By STEPHEN PAGET, F.R.C.S.

With 8 full-page Illustrations.

THE EDINBURGH SCHOOL OF SURGERY BEFORE LISTER

By ALEX. MILES, M.D., F.R.C.S.

With 8 full-page Illustrations.

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This is the first picture of an amputation known

_From Gerssdorff's woodcut, reproduced in Gurlt's "Geschichte der Chirurgie"_]

MEDIEVAL MEDICINE

by

JAMES J. WALSH K.C.ST.G., M.D., PH.D., SC.D., LITT.D.

Medical Director, Sociological Department Fordham University, and Professor Physiological Psychology Cathedral College, New York

Fellow A.M.A., A.A.A.S., Member of the French, German, and Italian Societies for the History of Medicine, etc.

Author of "Makers of Modern Medicine," and Other Volumes on Medical History

"_Multum egerunt qui ante nos fuerunt, sed non peregerunt.
Suspiciendi tamen sunt et ritu Deorum colendi._"
SENECA: _Epist. LXIV._

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Made in Great Britain.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

PREFACE vii

I. INTRODUCTION 1

II. EARLY MEDIEVAL MEDICINE 21

III. SALERNO AND THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN MEDICAL EDUCATION 37

IV. MONTPELLIER AND MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE WEST 61

V. LATER MEDIEVAL MEDICINE 74

VI. MEDIEVAL SURGEONS: ITALY 88

VII. SURGEONS OUTSIDE OF ITALY: SURGEONS OF THE WEST OF EUROPE 109

VIII. ORAL SURGERY AND THE MINOR SURGICAL SPECIALITIES 136

IX. MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR WOMEN 154

X. MEDIEVAL HOSPITALS 169

XI. MEDIEVAL CARE OF THE INSANE 183

APPENDIX I 206