Class Notes: Exemplars of Medieval Medicine


  • Agricultural and Industrial revolution
    • population explosion
      • towns and cities
    • universities
      • BA, MA
      • professional faculties
    • prosperity and confidence
    • transmission [problem of vocabulary]
      • assimilation
    • monastic and scholastic periods
  • Plague
    • public health regulations and boards
    • professionalization of M.D.s
      • laws
      • licensing
      • education
        • M.B.; M. D.
    • separation of medicine and surgery [in north, not south]
  • Key figures: Practice, anatomy, surgery; translators
      • Galenic subordinate to religion; growing supernaturalism
    • Mondinus, esp. Anathomia, ca. 1316
    • de Chauliac
    • de Mondeville
    • Hugh of Lucca and Theodoric of
    • Constantine the African
    • Gerard of Cremona
  • Key places:  Salerno, Bologna, Padua; Paris; Oxford [Cambridge??]


Miscellaneous:

  • caritas
  • professionalizatoin
    • (education, laws)
  • religion
    • patron saints
    • shrines and relics
  • causes of disease
  • surgeons
  • vernacular
    • nomenclature
    • translators
  • plagues
  • women
  • hospitals
  • monasteries
  • laudable pus,
  • macro - microcosm
  • dissection
    • post mortem
    • anatomical teaching


Overlooked:

  • leprosy.
  • 4 types of madness (Galen)
    • frenzy, melancholy, mania, fatuity
    • [Alzheimer’s? dementia? senility?]
  • Chain of Being or Scala Naturae
  • Quarantine
  • 5 systems
    • arteries, veins, nerves, bones and muscles