Medieval Medicine

Quite contrary to the usual impression, rather extensive and well-managed institutions for the care of the insane came into existence during the Middle Ages, and continued to fu...

"Sciences are made by addition, and it is not possible that the same man should begin and finish them...." "We are like infants at the neck of a giant, for we can see all that t...

The first medical school of modern history, and the institution which more than any other has helped us to understand the Middle Ages, is that of Salerno. Indeed, the accumulati...

Strange as it may seem, and quite contrary to the usual impressions in the matter, the most interesting department of the history of the medical science during the Middle Ages i...

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...

The surgical specialities, as they are called--that is, the surgery of the mouth, throat, and nose, and of the eye and ear, as well of course as of certain other portions of the...

There are two distinct periods in the history of Medieval Medicine. The first concerns the early centuries, from the sixth to the ninth, and is occupied mainly with the contribu...

Among the rather startling surprises that have developed, as the growth of our knowledge of medieval history, through consultation of the documents in recent years, is constantl...

Our recent experience makes it easy to understand that such magnificent advance in surgery as has been described in the preceding chapters would have been quite impossible unles...

After Salerno the next great medical school was that of Montpellier in the South of France. The conditions which brought about its original establishment are very like those whi...

Medicine in the later Middle Ages, that is, from the tenth to the middle of the fifteenth centuries, was greatly influenced by the medical schools which arose in Italy and the W...