Gilbertus Anglicus: Medicine of the Thirteenth Century

_Opii, Succi Jusquiami (hyoscyami), Succi papaveris nigri, vel ejus seminis, Sacci mandragorae, vel ejus corticis, vel pomorunt ipsius si succo carueris, Foliorum hederae arbora...

In Italy alone did surgery vindicate for itself an equality with medicine, and the pioneer of this advance was Roger of Parma, who, as we have seen, flourished early in the thir...

Causon was due to putrefaction of bile in the smaller vessels of the heart, diaphragm, stomach or liver, and was an acute fever characterized by furred tongue, intolerable front...

Gilbert continues: "I will tell you also what I myself saw in a woman suffering and screaming with pain in her right wrist (_assuere_?), which was greatly swollen, hot, red and...

Now Gilbert in his Compendium (f. 259a) refers to the writings of Averroës (Ibn Roschd) regarding the color of the iris of the eye. Averroës died in the year 1198. There is no p...

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In the departments of general medicine not as yet entirely appropriated by specialists it will suffice to mention scrofula, pleurisy and pneumonia, hemoptysis, empyema, phthisis...

It is not difficult, of course, to select from the Compendium a charm or two, a few impossible etymologies and a few silly statements, to display these with a witty emphasis and...