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Medicine in the English Middle Ages

By Faye Getz

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0691085226, 9780691085227, 9781400811731
LCC
R487 .G47 1998
Open Library ID
OL344565M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
849 kB (869187 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
188\188
Topic
Medicine
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-06-26 00:49:36

Description

Nine years ago, a question slipped among a fascinating meeting about the heroism, viewed from all the possible angles: Does the science produce heroes? Instantaneously I replied: yes, indeed. The astronomy and medicine are notably the maxim exponents in this sense. If not, it's better to recall you Giordano Bruno ( who moments before to be ignited in Fiore's camp pronounced those unforgettable words: "I receive this sentence with less fear than those who made it. Because a day will come in what men of tomorrow will see what I see.") and Miguel de Servet who stoically offered their lives against the mainstream of those ages.

Faye Getz explores a vast number of historical sources and conveys us through the wide variety of the different aspects concerned with practice of medicine in the medieval Britain.

Absolutely indispensable in your personal library.

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