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Book SynopsisThis anthology explores often overlooked periods in medicine from medieval to early modern times, taking as a principal theme the need to return to familiar texts and sources for new interpretations. In twelve essays written by a diverse group of scholars, the collection covers topics such as medical politics, herbal remedies and nationalism, the role of experience in casebook writing, the use of medical allusions in literature and popular culture, and the changing impact of various book editions on surgery, embryology, and lay medical knowledge.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction, Elizabeth Lane Furdell 1. Reading Medieval Medical Texts with an Open Mind, Anne Van Arsdall 2. Ordering Human Growth in Tibetan Medical and Religious Embryologies, Frances Garrett 3. Galen Refashioned: Gariopontus in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance, Florence Eliza Glaze 4. Paracelsus's Great Wound Surgery, Lilla Vekerdy 5. Wondrous Experience as Text: Valleriola and the Observationes Medicinales, Brian Nance 6. "Profitable Unto the Vulgar": The Case and Cases of John Cotta's Short Discoverie, Todd H. J. Pettigrew 7. Re-Anatomizing Melancholy: Burton and the Logic of Humoralism, Kaara L. Peterson 8. Vegetal Prejudice and Healing Territories in Early Modern England, Rachel Poliquin 9. Donne and the Noble Art, Jocelyn Emerson 10. Pox Britannica: The French Disease in the Age of Rochester, Ann A. Huse 11. Willis and Sydenham on Diabetes: Discovery and Debate in Early Modern English Medicine, Elizabeth Lane Furdell 12. Merton Revised: English Independency and Medical Conservatism in the Seventeenth Century, William Birken Index
