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The Medieval Surgery
The complete illustrations, with commentary, from the 13th-century Anglo-Norman translations of Roger of Parma's Surgery(c.1180), the first original treatise on surgery to be written in the medieval West.
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 inthe 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 Latintext 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.
TONY HUNT is the author of Popular Medicine, Plant Names of Medieval England and Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Century England.
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 inthe 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 Latintext 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.
TONY HUNT is the author of Popular Medicine, Plant Names of Medieval England and Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Century England.
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120 pages, Paperback
First published December 31, 1992
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Tony Hunt
51 books2 followersReader in French Literature at the University of St.Andrews.
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April 4, 2019
If you ever need reminding that you're fortunate to live in the twenty-first century, this is the book to read. There are pictures of things (such as a barbed arrow) being removed from a body, wounds being cauterised with a red hot rod of iron and a drill boring into a skull. All were procedures carried out in the Middle Ages without the benefit of anaesthetic.
It's an interesting little book, but it's more about the pictures than the surgical procedures. I would have prefered to know a bit more about the text illustrated by the drawings, but the illustrations are an education in themselves.
It's an interesting little book, but it's more about the pictures than the surgical procedures. I would have prefered to know a bit more about the text illustrated by the drawings, but the illustrations are an education in themselves.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews