Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death

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List of illustrations and tables List of contributors and editors Acknowledgements Note on names Introduction: practical medicine from Salerno to the Black Death Luis Garcia-Ballester 1. Astrology in medical practice Roger French 2. The science and practice of medicine in the thirteenth century according to Guglielmo da Saliceto, Italian surgeon Jole Agrimi and Chiara Crisciani 3. How to write a Latin book on surgery: organizing principles and authorial devices in Gugleilmo da Saliceto and Dino del Garbo Nancy G. Siraisi 4. Derivation and revulsion: the theory and practice of medieval phlebotomy Pedro Gil-Sotres 5. Surgical texts and social contexts: physicians and surgeons in Paris, c. 1270 to 1430 Cornelius O'Boyle 6. Medical practice in Paris in the first half of the fourteenth century Danielle Jacquart 7. Royal surgeons and the value of medical learning: the Crown of Aragon, 1300-1350 Michael R. McVaugh 8. Facing the Black Death: perceptions and reactions of university medical practitioners Jon Arrizabalaga 9. John of Arderne and the Mediterranean tradition of scholastic surgery Peter Murray Jones 10. Documenting medieval women's medical practice Monica H. Green 11. A marginal learned medical world: Jewish, Muslim and Christian medical practitioners, and the use of Arabic medical sources in late medieval Spain Luis Garcia-Ballester Index.

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