The growth of medicine from the earliest times to about 1800Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry)
History
The growth of medicine from the earliest times to about 1800
Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry)
Medicine -- History
Part III. deals with skin diseases and various forms of tumors,
including those of the thyroid gland; and with diseases of the eye,
the ear and the nasal cavities; with the various kinds of hernia; with
renal and cystic calculi; with hemorrhoids, varicose veins, etc.; with
abdominal dropsy; and with still other affections. In bloodletting he
recommends the practice of opening the vein longitudinally. He is very
emphatic in his manner of insisting that medicine and surgery should
not be divorced, and that the operation of drawing blood should not be
intrusted to barbers.
After the death or retirement of Lanfranchi during the first decade
of the fourteenth century, Paris appears to have played, at least for
a few years, a comparatively small part in the history of medical
teaching. Her rivals at Montpellier, in the south of France, and at
Bologna and Padua, in Italy, far outstripped her during this period.
There was one physician at Paris, however,--Henri de Mondeville,--who
would probably have proved a worthy successor of Lanfranchi if
circumstances had not seriously interfered with his acting the part of
a teacher.
_Henri de Mondeville._--Henri de Mondeville, says Edouard
Nicaise, was born about 1260 A. D. in Normandy. In his native
village--Mondeville or Mandeville, or Amondaville, all of which names
are found in the manuscripts--he was known simply as Henri, but in the
outside world and in medical literature he is mentioned, in accordance
with the prevailing custom of that period, as Henri de Mondeville.
After studying medicine for a certain length of time in Paris and
Montpellier, he went to Italy and became the pupil of Theodoric of
Bologna. He is said to have been passionately fond of surgery, which
at that period was, in France, a much despised branch of medicine. In
Italy, on the contrary, such men as William of Saliceto, Hugo of Lucca,
Theodoric and Lanfranchi had raised surgery to a position of great
honor, and Henri de Mondeville cherished the hope that he also might be
able to accomplish the same result in France. Upon his return to Paris
he was chosen one of the physicians (there were four in all) of the
royal household, and from that time onward he was frequently obliged to
set aside, for longer or shorter periods, all his personal interests
(private practice, lecturing to medical students, hospital service at
Hôtel-Dieu, etc.) in order to attend the King or the Comte de Valois
on some military expedition. This sort of service, however, was by no
means time lost, for it afforded him the opportunity to acquire great
experience in the treatment of wounds, an experience which reveals
itself on almost every page of his treatise on surgery. And yet there
came a time (1312) when de Mondeville complained bitterly of these
interruptions, for which he received no pay and which interfered
seriously with his literary work. Despite these hindrances, he appears
to have made a fair degree of progress in the writing of his book,
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