PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

APPENDIX I

APPENDIX II

INDEX

Title: Medieval Medicine

Author: James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

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Medical History Manuals

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MEDIEVAL MEDICINE

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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

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