Medieval medicine : the art of healing, from head to toe / Luke Demaitre.

Author/Creator:

Demaitre, Luke E., 1935-

Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, c2013.

Series:

Praeger series on the Middle Ages.
Praeger series on the Middle Ages

Format/Description:

Book
xiv, 350 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subjects:

Medicine, Medieval.

Medical subjects:

History of Medicine.
History, Medieval.

Contents:

Learning to heal
Paradigms of disease : fever, pestilence, and poison
The body surface : tumors and trauma
Head problems, from hair to epilepsy
The face and the senses
Uvula to diaphragm, and "passiones spirituales"
From gullet to gut : "passiones nutritivorum"
From the haunches to the heels, and "passiones generativorum".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780275984854 (hardcopy : alk. paper)
0275984850 (hardcopy : alk. paper)
9780313038426 (ebook)
0313038422 (ebook)

OCLC:

815717079

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