Medieval Medicine

Faith Wallis is Associate Professor at McGill University, jointly appointed in the Department of History and the Department of Social Studies of Medicine. She is the co-editor of Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine: An Encyclopedia (Routledge, 2005) and the author of essays and translations on medieval science and medicine.

A truly rewarding work, worth acquiring not only by scholars and teachers of medieval medicine in particular but more broadly by anyone teaching in the field of medieval European history and society. It will also make for compelling reading to anyone curious to explore the sheer range and variety of European medicine in a time of ferment, fascinating intercultural discourse, and far-reaching change. (The Medieval Review) The excellent final product seems to witness years of long work in the testing ground of the classroom. The result is an original and lively collection of medieval texts in modern English about and around medicine, one that also conveys effectively the social complexity and intellectual subtlety of the subject. The collection is an excellent and comprehensive overview both for students and scholars that shows vividly what medicine was for medieval actors and what it is today for historians of medieval medicine. (Social History of Medicine) This collection of relevant texts in the field of medieval medicine proves to be enormously helpful for those who are in need of a good anthology for a class on the history of medicine in the Middle Ages. (Mediaevistik)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I. Medicina: Healers and Healing in Early Medieval Europe (500-1100) Chapter One: The Fragmented Heritage of Ancient Medicine I. The Alexandrian Curriculum in Latin Dress 1. Isidore of Seville: The Canon of Medicine2. The Old Latin Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates3. Teaching the Alexandrian Curriculum in Sixth-Century Italy: Agnellus of Ravenna's Commentary on Galen's On Sects4. An Early Medieval Summary of Medical Theory: The Wisdom of the Art of MedicineII. Medical Practices in a Changing World5. An Encyclopedia of Practical Medicine from the Age of Justinian: Alexander of Tralles6. Galen Enlarged for Practice: Pseudo-Galen, Liber tertius on Pneumonia and Pleurisy7. Echoes of Methodism: "Aurelius" on Rabies8. Medical Self-Help for the Gentleman Traveler: The Medicine and Natural Remedies of "Pliny"9. A Late Antique Estate-Holder's Manual of Home Remedies10. The Doctor as Connoisseur of Pulses and Urines11. Prognosis and Prophecy Chapter Two: Christianity, Disease, and MedicineI. Saints as Healers12. A Sixth-Century Byzantine Saint Dispenses Medical Advice: Theodore of Sykeon13. The Medical World of Gregory of Tours: Plagues, Doctors, and Saints14. A Reluctant Bishop-Healer: John of Beverley15. A Carolingian Therapeutic Passion of Saints Cosmas and DamianII. Rituals of Healing16. St Sigismund, Patron of Sufferers from Fever17. "Prayers to the Earth and All Herbs"Chapter Three: Medicine in Early Medieval Courts and Cloisters I. The Doctor at Court18. The Court Physician in Ostrogothic Italy19. Dietary Advice for a Merovingian King20. Alcuin on the Doctors at Charlemagne's CourtII. Monastic Medicine in the Early Medieval West21. The Care of the Sick at the Monastery of Vivarium22. Medical Injunctions in the Rule of St Benedict23. A Monastic Defense of Medicine against Rigorist Critics: The Lorsch Leechbook 24. The Plan of St Gall: Medical Facilities within an Ideal Monastery25. Medicine, Morality, and Meditation in a Monastic Herb-Garden: Walahfrid Strabo's The Little GardenIII. The Medical Networks of Missionaries and Bishops26. The Medical Networks of Eighth-Century Anglo-Saxon Missionaries27. Bishop Pardulus of Laon Dispenses Medical Advice28. Elias of Jerusalem Sends a Prescription to King Alfred of Wessex29. Letters of Medical Advice from Bishop Fulbert of Chartres and His Circle Chapter Four: A Regional Case Study: Medicine in Anglo-Saxon England30. Bald's Leechbook and Leechbook IIIPart II. Physica: The Advent and Impact of Academic Medicine (1100-1500) Chapter Five: Salerno: Medicine's "Theoretical Turn" and the Rationalization of Practice 31. Tenth-Century Medicine: The Testimony of Richer of Rheims32. Constantine the African: The Romance of Translating Arabic Medicine33. Medical Theory and the Formation of the Articella (1): The Isagoge of Joannitius34. Medical Theory and the Formation of the Articella (2): Bartholomaeus of Salerno Comments on the Isagoge35. Salernitan Anatomy: The Second Salernitan Demonstration 36. The Practice of Pharmacy Rationalized37. The Practice of Therapeutics Rationalized: The Practice of Medicine by Bartholomaeus of Salerno 38. The Practice of Surgery Rationalized: The Surgery of Roger Frugard39. The Salernitan Tradition of Gynecology: The Trotula Chapter Six: Via scolaris: Medicine in the University I. Faculties and Curricula40. From Philosophy to Physic: Paris from the Late Twelfth Century to the Late Thirteenth Century41. Montpellier and the "New Galen"42. The "University of Arts and Medicine" at BolognaII. Medical Scholasticism in Action: Authoritative Texts and Academic Commentaries43. Is Medicine a Science? (1) Avicenna and His Commentator Gentile of Foligno44. Is Medicine a Science? (2) Arnau of Vilanova Argues that Medicine Transcends Theory45. Is Medicine a Science? (3) Henri of Mondeville on Progress in Medicine46. The Scholastic Quaestio: Aristotle vs. Galen on the Generation of the Embryo47. Academic Dissection as "Material Commentary" (1): Mondino de'Liuzzi48. Academic Dissection as "Material Commentary" (2): Anatomical Illustration49. Scholastic Medicine Popularized: Bartholomaeus Anglicus on Diseases of the Head and of the Mind Chapter Seven: Theory and Practice in Scholastic Medicine 50. Signs and Diagnosis (1): Gilles of Corbeil on Urines51. Signs and Diagnosis (2): Epitome on Pulses52. Causes: The Case of Epilepsy53. Scholastic Therapeutics (1): Rhazes, Book for Almansor54. Scholastic Therapeutics (2) John of Gaddesden on Smallpox55. Scholastic Pharmacology: Bernard of Gordon56. A Primer on Bloodletting (1): Lanfranc of Milan's Scholastic Phlebotomy 57. A Primer on Bloodletting (2): The "Sign Man": An Astrological Guide to Phlebotomy58. Is Surgery a Science? (1): Lanfranc of Milan Defends the Intellectual Dignity of Surgery59. Is Surgery a Science? (2): Henri of Mondeville Defends the Scientific Credentials of Surgery60. Is Surgery a Science? (3): Guy of Chauliac's History of Surgery61. A Surgical Sampler (1): Guy of Chauliac on the Treatment of Wounds62. A Surgical Sampler (2): Teodorico Borgognoni and the New Surgical Diseases63. A Surgical Sampler (3): Ophthalmic Surgery64. A Surgical Sampler (4): Surgical Anesthesia?Chapter Eight: Contested Frontiers of Scholastic Medicine: Medical Astrology and Medical Alchemy65. Panacea or Problem? (1): The Case for Medical Astrology66. Panacea or Problem? (2): Jacques Despars's Reservations about Medical Astrology67. Roger Bacon: Alchemy and the Medical Payoff of "Experimental Science"68. Bisticius: A Florentine Goldsmith and Medical Alchemist Part III. Medicine and Society (1100-1500) Chapter Nine: What is Disease? What is Illness? Doctors' Dilemmas and the Meaning of Suffering69. Interpreting Symptoms: The Difficult Case of Leprosy70. Metaphor and Malignancy: The Difficult Case of Cancer (1): Jean of Tournemire Diagnoses His Daughter's Breast Cancer and Receives Divine Medical Aid71. Metaphor and Malignancy: The Difficult Case of Cancer (2): Guillaume Boucher Treats a Parisian Lady with Breast Cancer72. The Enigma of Mental Illness 73. Prophecy and Healing: The Meaning of Illness According to Hildegard of Bingen Chapter Ten: Who Can Help? Physicians, "Empirics," and the Spectrum of Practitioners74. Should Clergy and Monks Practice Medicine?75. The Faculty of Medicine of Paris vs. Jacopa Felicie76. The Faculty of Medicine of Paris vs. Jean Domremi77. Jewish Doctors: The Case of Provence Chapter Eleven: What Can They Do? Clinical Encounters in Medieval Europe78. The Doctor at the Bedside (1): Precept According to Archimatthaeus79. The Doctor at the Bedside (2): Precept According to Arnau of Vilanova80. The Doctor at the Bedside (3): Practice Illustrated by Guillaume Boucher81. Tried and True: Medical Experimenta ("Proven Remedies") by Arnau of Vilanova82. Customized Therapeutics: The Medieval Medical Consilium (1)83. Customized Therapeutics: The Medieval Medical Consilium (2): Gentile of Foligno84. The Special Challenges of Plague (1): The Report of the Paris Medical Faculty, October 134885. The Special Challenges of Plague (2): Guy of Chauliac on the Black Death86. The Special Challenges of Plague (3): John of Burgundy's Treatise on the EpidemicChapter Twelve: The Ethics of Medical Care (1): Conscience and the Law87. Professional Character in the Early Middle Ages: Variations on Hippocratic Themes88. Ethics of Care in the Early Middle Ages: Christian Reflections89. Professional Conduct in the Later Middle Ages: From Character to Code90. Licensing and Accountability (1): Malpractice in Crusader Palestine91. Licensing and Accountability (2): Legislation Governing Doctors in the Thirteenth-Century Kingdom of Sicily92. Licensing and Accountability (3): Examining and Supervising Practitioners in Fourteenth-Century Valencia93. John Arderne's Advice on How to Determine the Fee, and Other Matters of Medical Etiquette Chapter Thirteen: The Ethics of Medical Care (2): Hospitals and the Provision of Charity94. The Organization and Ethos of a Medieval Hospital (1): The Jerusalem Hospital95. The Organization and Ethos of a Medieval Hospital (2): The Hôtel-Dieu in Paris96. The Organization and Ethos of a Medieval Hospital (3): A Twelfth-Century English Leper Hospital97. Medical Care in a Medieval Hospital (1): The Jerusalem Hospital98. Medical Care in a Medieval Hospital (2): John of Mirfield at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London Chapter Fourteen: The Cultivation of Health: Lifestyle, Regimen, and the Medical Self99. Lifestyle Advice for All (1): The Salerno Regimen of Health100. Lifestyle Advice for All (2): Aldobrandino of Siena on Health throughout the Life Cycle101. Lifestyle Advice, Customized (1): The Army on Campaign102. Lifestyle Advice, Customized (2): A Physician of Valencia Advises His Sons, Who Are Studying in Toulouse103. Medicalizing the Table and the Home: The Tacuinum sanitatis104. Medicalizing Sex: Constantine the AfricanChapter Fifteen: Satires and Critiques of Medicine 105. Dr Galen and Burnel the Ass106. Petrarch Lashes Out against the Doctors107. The Doctor as Comic Relief in the Croxton Play of the SacramentGlossaryIndex of Topics Sources