Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 43300-h.htm or 43300-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43300/43300-h/43300-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43300/43300-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/medievalmedicine00wals Medical History Manuals _General Editor_--John D. Comrie, M.A., B.SC., M.D., F.R.C.P.E. MEDIEVAL MEDICINE * * * * * * IN THE SAME SERIES PASTEUR AND AFTER PASTEUR By STEPHEN PAGET, F.R.C.S. With 8 full-page Illustrations. THE EDINBURGH SCHOOL OF SURGERY BEFORE LISTER By ALEX. MILES, M.D., F.R.C.S. With 8 full-page Illustrations. A. AND C. BLACK, LTD., 4 SOHO SQ., LONDON, W. 1 * * * * * * [Illustration: AN AMPUTATION BELOW THE KNEE This is the first picture of an amputation known _From Gerssdorff's woodcut, reproduced in Gurlt's "Geschichte der Chirurgie"_] MEDIEVAL MEDICINE by JAMES J. WALSH K.C.ST.G., M.D., PH.D., SC.D., LITT.D. Medical Director, Sociological Department Fordham University, and Professor Physiological Psychology Cathedral College, New York Fellow A.M.A., A.A.A.S., Member of the French, German, and Italian Societies for the History of Medicine, etc. Author of "Makers of Modern Medicine," and Other Volumes on Medical History "_Multum egerunt qui ante nos fuerunt, sed non peregerunt. Suspiciendi tamen sunt et ritu Deorum colendi._" SENECA: _Epist. LXIV._ A. & C. Black, Ltd. 4, 5 & 6, Soho Square, London, W.C. 1 1920 Made in Great Britain. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE vii I. INTRODUCTION 1 II. EARLY MEDIEVAL MEDICINE 21 III. SALERNO AND THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN MEDICAL EDUCATION 37 IV. MONTPELLIER AND MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE WEST 61 V. LATER MEDIEVAL MEDICINE 74 VI. MEDIEVAL SURGEONS: ITALY 88 VII. SURGEONS OUTSIDE OF ITALY: SURGEONS OF THE WEST OF EUROPE 109 VIII. ORAL SURGERY AND THE MINOR SURGICAL SPECIALITIES 136 IX. MEDICAL EDUCATION FOR WOMEN 154 X. MEDIEVAL HOSPITALS 169 XI. MEDIEVAL CARE OF THE INSANE 183 APPENDIX I 206 APPENDIX II 212 INDEX 217