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The Medieval Surgery

By Tony Hunt

Book information

Publisher
Boydell Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0851157548, 9780851157542, 9780585162232
Open Library ID
OL8277656M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
132 kB (135169 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Tony Hunt presents, for the first time, the complete set of illustrations which accompany a 13th-century Anglo-Norman translation of Roger of Parma's Surgery (c.1180), the first original treatise on surgery to be written in the medieval West. His commentary relates the drawings precisely to the sections of text they illustrate, providing accurate identification of the different medical treatments depicted, fusing careful translation from the Latin text with modern medical perception. These distinctive drawings, almost without parallel in 13th-century England, show a consummate medical illustrator at work and reveal a great deal of information on the medieval pharmacy and the range of therapeutic treatments practised.

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