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Medicine in the Middle Ages

Medicine in the Middle Ages. Supplementary materials to “Healing”. Anatomical illustration. Anatomical illustration showing the veins, from a medical miscellany. England; 13th century, late Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 399, fol. 18r [Formerly no. 17]

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Medicine in the Middle Ages

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  1. Medicine in the Middle Ages Supplementary materials to “Healing”

  2. Anatomical illustration • Anatomical illustration showing the veins, from a medical miscellany.England; 13th century, lateBodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 399, fol. 18r[Formerly no. 17] • http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/misc/towards.htm

  3. http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/jpegs/imagecat/1500/imac0961.jpghttp://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/jpegs/imagecat/1500/imac0961.jpg

  4. http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/rti/diagnostics_1503_reisch01.jpghttp://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/rti/diagnostics_1503_reisch01.jpg

  5. Herbals • Apuleius, Dioscorides, Herbals (extracts); De virtutibus bestiarum in arte medicinae, in Latin and EnglishEngland, Bury St. Edmunds; 11th century, late • http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/mss/bodl/130.htm

  6. fol. 2r (detail)Beet

  7. fol. 3r (detail)Strawberry

  8. fol. 9v Woodruff

  9. A Woman gathering herbshttp://www.umm.maine.edu/medica/biblio.html

  10. The Tree of Poisonhttp://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/BotanicalSciences/AboutBotany/MythicalPlants/BohunUpas/BohunUpas.htm

  11. Four elements • The Greeks believed the world was divided into four basic elements and that the body mirrored this division in the Four Humors, or bodily fluids. • Basic Elements  Bodily Fluid  Resulting Temperament

  12. Fire/ water/ earth/ air • Fire - Yellow bile - Choleric; Violent, vengeful • Water - Phlegm - Phlegmatic: Dull, pale, cowardly • Earth - Black bile - Melancholic; Gluttonous, lazy, sentimental • Air - Blood - Sanguine; Happy, generous, amourous http://balder.prohosting.com/shissem/Hissem_Gernets%20of%20Heysham.html

  13. http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/images/jpeg/i4_0057.jpg

  14. The Four Temperaments • Central figure is that of a man with lines connecting various body parts to their humoral elements. Phlegmatics in lower right corner, colics in upper left. Hunting scenes fill right and bottom borders. [Paris: Philippe Pigouchet, 1501] • http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/

  15. Balance of Four Elementshttp://www.russianbooks.org/galen.htm • WET   DRYwet-cold [wet-hot/cold]   /     dry-hot [dry-hot/cold]/ -------------------------[ perfect balance ] ------------------------/[wet/dry-hot]  wet-hot      /     [wet/dry-cold] dry-coldHOT COLD

  16. Qualities, elements, seasons, humorshttp://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/ideas/elements.html

  17. Four Elements

  18. http://www.russianbooks.org/galen.htm Geometric vector  modeling of elemental mixture theory.From Isidore de Seville, De natura rerum, manuscript circa A.D. 800(IMAGE SOURCE:  Cologne Diocese Library, Germany)

  19. Dying and DeathLast Rites -- the final sacrament Relationship between the priest and the doctorhttp://www.uiowa.edu/~c016136/LectureOutlines/Medieval%20Medicine_files/slide0012_image010.jpg

  20. Medieval Medicine • http://www.uiowa.edu/~c016136/LectureOutlines/Medieval%20Medicine_files/frame.htm

  21. MEDIEVAL MEDICINE AND MEDICAL PRACTICEShttp://history.smsu.edu/jchuchiak/HSt%20101--Lecture%2017--Medieval_medicine_and_medical_pr.htm

  22. http://library.thinkquest.org/15569/hist-6.html

  23. Gilbertus, Anglicus. Compendium medicine. Lugduni, 1510. • Gilbert the Englishman, who lived in the 13th century, was England's first major medical writer. He intended his Compendium to include all medical knowledge.

  24. The Black Death • http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/middleages/blackdeath/blackdeath.html

  25. Significant dates: • in 1348 it spread to Ireland,France,Spain,and England. • 1346 plague reached Black Sea. • in 1350 the plague entred Russia. • the plague arrived in Europe in 1347 and lasted until 1350. • after plague was gone there were few cases every year.

  26. http://www.click2disasters.com/stories/black_death/images/hardhit.jpghttp://www.click2disasters.com/stories/black_death/images/hardhit.jpg

  27. http://www.york.ac.uk/teaching/history/pjpg/black-death.jpg

  28. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/arabic/arabichome.html

  29. Crudest Empiricism? Sheer guesswork?

  30. The coordination between theory and practice in the medieval medicine?

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