Medicine and Healing in the Premodern West: A History in Documents: (From the Broadview Sources Series)

ISBN-13: 9781554813902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str.

Winston Black

Spis treści

• Introduction
• Chronology
• Questions to Consider
• Documents
• 1. The Earliest Medical Writings of the Near East and Mediterranean (ca.2000-700 BCE)
• 1. The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus
• 2. Diagnosis in Ancient Egypt: The Ebers Papyrus
• 3. A Babylonian Spell against Fever
• 4. Plague as Divine Punishment in Homer’s Iliad
• 5. Gods as the Source of Disease: Hesiod, Works and Days
• 6. Violence and Healing in Homeric Greece
• 2. Medicine and Healing among the Ancient Greeks (ca.500 BCE – 200 CE)
• Rational Medicine in the Age of Hippocrates
• 7. Hippocratic Corpus, Nature of Man
• 8. Plato on the Nature of Disease: Timaeus
• 9. Thucydides and the Plague of Athens, 430 BCE
• 10. Hippocratic Corpus, Aphorisms
• 11. Hippocratic Corpus, Airs, Waters, and Places
• 12. Case Histories the Hippocratic Epidemics
• Asclepius, the God of Physicians
• 13. The Hippocratic Oath
• 14. Pindar: Apollo leaves Asclepius with Chiron the Centaur
• 15. Celsus celebrates Asclepius as a Man
• 16. A Greek anatomical votive plaque
• 17. Aelius Aristides dreams of Asclepius
• 18. An Egyptian God in Greek Dress in a Hellenistic Papyrus
• 3. Professional Medicine in the Roman Mediterranean (ca.1-300 CE)
• 19. Galen, On the Medical Sects
• 20. Aretaeus the Cappadocian on the Difficult Case of Tetanus
• 21. Rufus of Ephesus, Medical Questions: Interrogation of the Patient
• 22. Celsus: A Healthy Regimen without Doctors
• 23. Dioscorides and the Science of Pharmacology
• 24. Galen, the Boastful Practitioner: On the Affected Places
• 25. Galen, On Black Bile: Praising and Rewriting Hippocrates
• 26. Herodian on a plague in the Roman Empire
• 4. Practical Medicine for the Roman Family and Home (ca.100-500 CE)
• 27. Varro, De re rustica: An early germ theory?
• 28. Vegetius, De re militari: Preserving the Health of Imperial Troops
• 29. The Legend of Agnodike, a Greek midwife and physician
• 30. Soranus of Ephesus: Instructions for Midwives
• 31. Cato the Elder’s Roman remedies: Cabbage, Wine, and Magic
• 32. Pliny the Elder’s homespun medicine: Remedies derived from Wool
• 33. Popular medicine in verse: Liber medicinalis
• 5. Distilling Classical Medicine in Late Antiquity (ca.300-700 CE)
• 34. Oribasius: A Galenic Diet in the Later Roman Empire
• 35. Anthimus to King Theoderic, On the Observance of Diet
• 36. A Medieval Primer in Ancient Medicine by St. Isidore of Seville
• 37. Medicine of Pliny for the Informed Traveler
• 38. The Herbarius of Apuleius Platonicus
• 39. Marcellus and His Empirical Handbook of Medicines
• 40. The Drug Theory of Paul of Aegina
• 6. Medical Diversity in the Early Middle Ages (ca.600-1000 CE)
• Monotheism and Medicine
• 41. The Oath of Asaph, a Jewish Physician’s Oath
• 42. A Christianized Hippocratic Oath
• 43. Medicine and Diet in the Rule of St. Benedict
• 44. Roman Doctors as Christian Saints: Cosmas and Damian
• 45. Islamic Medicine of the Prophet: Sunan Abu Duwud
• Early Medieval Responses to Plague and Pestilence
• 46. Evagrius Scholasticus on the Plague of Justinian
• 47. Gregory of Tours on Epidemic Disease and the Sickness of Kings
• 48. A Votive Mass against Pestilence
• Old English Medicine: Superstition or Empiricism?
• 49. The Nine Herbs Charm, from the Old English Lacnunga
• 50. Bald’s Leechbook: Herbal remedies for eye problems
• 51. Medical Prognostics in Anglo-Saxon England
• 7. The Arabic Tradition of Learned Medicine (ca.900-1400 CE)
• 52. An Introduction to Rational Medicine: Hunayn ibn Ishaq’s Isagoge
• 53. Avicenna, The Canon of Medicine
• 54. Avicenna on Prognosis through Urine
• 55. Maimonides and Galen on the Meaning of the Pulse
• 56. Al-Razi, Case Studies in the Spirit of Hippocrates
• 57. Usamah ibn Munqidh: A Muslim view of Frankish Medicine
• 58. Al-Razi on Diagnosis and Treatment for Smallpox and Measles
• 59. Pilgrim Medicine: Qust? ibn L?q? on “The Little Dragon of Medina”
• 60. Ancient Greeks in Later Medieval Prophetic Medicine: al-Tibb al-nabawi
• 8. Learned Medicine in High Medieval Europe (ca.1000-1400 CE)
• Humours, Complexion, and Uroscopy
• 61. A Clever Duke and a Cleverer Physician in the Tenth Century
• 62. Constantine the African, Pantegni: Understanding Complexion
• 63. Humoural Medicine in Verse: The Salernitan Regimen of Health
• 64. A Medieval Urine Wheel
• 65. Constantine the African with a Urine Glass
• Explaining Diseases
• 66. Diagnosing Lovesickness: Constantine the African’s Medicalized Emotions
• 67. Platearius on Leprosy in Theory and Practice
• 68. Guy de Chauliac’s personal experience with the Black Death
• Observation and Authority
• 69. Trota of Salerno as a Medical Master
• 70. Medical Education in High Medieval Europe (Three Accounts)
• 71. Licenses for Male and Female Surgeons in Medieval Naples
• 72. A Woman Physician on Trial in Medieval Paris, 1322
• 9. Medical Practice in the High Middle Ages (ca.1000-1400 CE)
• Herbalism and Pharmacology
• 73. Macer Floridus, On the Virtues of Herbs
• 74. Henry of Huntingdon, Herbalism in The English Garden
• 75. Matthaeus Platearius: Rationalizing Simple and Compound Medicines
• Arabic and Latin Surgery
• 76. Learned Surgery: Albucasis on the Treatment of Cataracts
• 77. Applying Medical Theory to Wound Treatment: Guy de Chauliac
• 78. Training and Decorum for the Learned Surgeon
• Medieval Obstetrics and Gynecology
• 79. Copho: Anatomy of the uterus, learned from a pig
• 80. A Brief Guide to Uroscopy of Women
• 81. Contraceptives in the Canon of Avicenna
• 82. St. Hildegard of Bingen: A Moralized Explanation of Menstruation
• 83. Trotula: Treating Retention of the Period in Medieval Italy
• 84. A Medieval Hebrew Treatise on Difficult Births
• 10. Medicine and the Supernatural: Competitors or Partners? (ca.1000-1400 CE)
• 85. A Doctor and a Saint in Early Salerno
• 86. The Life of Saint Milburga: Physicians and Saints, Healing Together?
• 87. Doctors and Miracles in the Canonization of Lady Delphine
• 88. Medieval Jewish Magical Medicine
• 89. Medieval Christian Healing Charms
• 90. John Arderne, Astrological Instructions for the Surgeon
• 91. Image: Astrological Bloodletting Man