Medicine from the Black Death to the French disease / edited by Roger French [and others].

Other author French, R. K. (Roger Kenneth)
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, Hants ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., ©1998.
Descriptionvi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Plaque--history. --Europe.
Disease Outbreaks--history. --Europe.
History, Early Modern 1451-1600--Europe.
History, Medieval--Europe.
Syphilis--history. --Europe.

SeriesThe history of medicine in context
History of medicine in context. ^A518919
Contents Introduction : the "long fifteenth century" of medical history / Roger French -- Jewish treatises on the Black Death (1350-1500) : a preliminary study / Ron Barkai -- Mater medicinarum : English physicians and the alchemical elixir in the fifteenth century / Michela Pereira -- Fascinating women : the evil eye in medical scholasticism / Fernando Salmón and Montserrat Cabré -- Medicine at the German universities, 1348-1500 : a preliminary sketch / Vivian Nutton -- Stones, bones and hernias : surgical specialists in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy / Katherine Park -- Treatment of hernia in the later middle ages : surgical correction and social construction / Michael R. McVaugh -- Thomas Fayreford : an English fifteenth-century medical practitioner / Peter Murray Jones -- Death of a medieval text : the Articella and the early press / Jon Arrizabalaga -- Epidemics and state medicine in fifteenth-century Milan / Ann G. Carmichael -- Coping with the French disease : university practitioners' strategies and tactics in the transition from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century / Roger French and Jon Arrizabalaga -- Anatomical rationality / Roger French.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- Robert W. Cihak History of Medicine Collection
LCCN 98002502
ISBN1859283829 :

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Laupus Books - Stacks WC 350 M489 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold