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Medieval Medicine - The Art of Healing, from Head to Toe (Hardcover, New)
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Medieval Medicine - The Art of Healing, from Head to Toe (Hardcover, New)
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This unique examination of medieval medicine as detailed in
physician's manuals of the period reveals a more sophisticated
approach to the medical arts than expected for the time. Far from
the primitive and barbaric practices the Middle Ages may conjure up
in our minds, doctors during that time combined knowledge,
tradition, innovation, and intuition to create a humane, holistic
approach to understanding and treating every known disease. In
fact, a singularly authoritative medical source of the period, Lily
of Medicine, continued to provide crucial study for students and
practitioners of medicine almost four centuries after its
completion in 1305. This unprecedented book investigates the
extensive capabilities of physicians who relied on practice,
observation, and imagination before the supremacy of mechanistic
views and technological aids. Medieval Medicine: The Art of
Healing, from Head to Toe is a comprehensive look at diseases as
they were described, classified, explained, assessed, and treated
by doctors of the age. The author methodically compares a dozen
encyclopedic manuals in which both the fundamental understanding of
healthy functions and the specific response to diseases were
summarized, viewing the information through a medieval perspective
rather than based upon modern criteria. Includes translations,
available for the first time in English, of original comments and
illustrations by physicians of the day Contains a plethora of
additional resources for learning, including 20 black-and-white
plates with full references, 5 tables, a glossary of unusual words,
a chronology and list of the consulted sources, and an extensive
bibliography Reveals how medieval medical manuals influenced
literary, historical, and medical study
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