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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   APPENDIX II 212   INDEX 217

 

 

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

AMPUTATION BELOW THE KNEE	Frontispiece
	FACING PAGE
HOLY GHOST HOSPITAL	64
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS OF GUY DE CHAULIAC	118
BRUNSCHWIG’S SURGICAL ARMAMENTARIUM	134
SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE ARABS	138
THIRTEENTH-CENTURY HOSPITAL INTERIOR	172
LEPER HOSPITAL OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW	176
THE HARBLEDOWN HOSPITAL	180

 

 

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“When we think of all the work, big with promise of the future, that went on in those centuries which modern writers in their ignorance used once to set apart and stigmatize as the ‘Dark Ages’; when we consider how the seeds of what is noblest in modern life were then painfully sown upon the soil which Imperial Rome had prepared; when we think of the various work of a Gregory, a Benedict, a Boniface, an Alfred, a Charlemagne, we feel that there is a sense in which the most brilliant achievements of pagan antiquity are dwarfed in comparison with these.”—Fiske: The Beginnings of New England, or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty.

 

 

TO
MOST REVEREND P. J. HAYES
ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK

AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF GRATITUDE FOR THE PRIVILEGE
OF CO-OPERATING IN THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
THAT IS A MONUMENT TO HIS PRUDENT WISDOM

 

 

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MEDIEVAL MEDICINE

 

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY

To understand the story of Medieval Medicine, the reader must recall briefly the course of Roman history. Rome, founded some eight centuries before Christ, was at first the home of a group of adventurers who, in the absence of women enough to supply wives for their warriors, went out and captured the maidens of a neighbouring Sabine town. The feud which broke out as a result was brought to an end by the women now become the wives of the Romans, and an alliance was made. Gradually Rome conquered the neighbouring cities, but was ever so much more interested in war and conquest than in the higher life. The Etruscan cities, which came under her domination, now reveal in their ruins art objects of exquisite beauty and the remains of a people of high artistic culture. When Rome conquered Carthage, Carthage was probably the most magnificent city in the world, and Rome was a very commonplace collection of houses. Culture did not come to Rome until after her conquest of Greece, when “captive Greece led her captor captive.”

Sir Henry Maine’s expression that whatever lives and moves in the