Chapter 6

Abdallah,41Abdominal wounds,98Abella,157Abulcasis,35,78Abul Farag,33Adalbert of Mainz,63Adale,41Ægidius,64Ægina, Paul of,6,27,33,138,146,149,184,186Æginetus.SeeÆgina, Paul ofÆtius,4,28,138,146Aëtius,27Albert the Great,110Albertus Magnus,14,18Alcohol,194Alessandra Giliani,164Alexander of Tralles,4,27,29,146Alexandria,33Ali Abbas,35Alphanus,41Anæsthesia,100,104,105,120Anselm of Havelberg,63Anthemios,5Antiseptic surgery,104wine as,101Arabian culture,8surgeons,149Arabians,139Arabs,46Archbishop of Lyons,63Arculanus,147,150Ardern, John,85,123,127Aretæus,186Argelata, Pietro d’,125Aristotle,18study of,16Armato, Salvino de,152Arnold de Villanova,66aphorisms of,67Arsenic in syphilis,124Artificial teeth,142Asepsis,95,101Asylums,191Aue, Hartmann von der,64Aurelius Celsus,26Authorities of medieval physicians,20Authority, influence of,12Autointoxication,83Avenzoar,35,77Averroes,35Avicenna,35,47,76,149Baas,181Bachtischua,7Bacon, Roger,14,110Bandages, stiffened,123Barber surgeons,115Bartholomæus Anglicus,81Bartholomew on causes of insanity,192Basil Valentine,84Baths,32for melancholia,184Bedlam,188Bedlamites,201Belisarius, Hospital of,171Benedictine convents,159Bernard de Gordon,70,72,153Bernard of Morlaix,49Bile in eye diseases,152Bladders of animals,78Bleeding,55,84Blood-letting,32Bologna,40Bones, number of,54Bougies,123Branca,106Antonio,107Bruno da Longoburgo,96Brunschwig, Hieronymus,135Bubonic plague,77Calomel,85Care of the insane,34,183,189Care of the sick,24,25Cassiodorus,25Cataract,151Cautery,100,126Celsus, Aurelius,26Charter of the University of Perugia,212Chauliac, Guy de,11,66,71,72,105,109,118,123,139,140,153,167Christian hospitals,24Cleanliness,95Clyster apparatus,127Cold compresses,30Compilation,3Constantine,36,45Contrecoup,92Convents, Benedictine,159Corbeil, Gilles de,64Cosmetics,77Crusades,89,181Dental instruments,143Dentistry,138Depressed fractures,93De Renzi,37,41,44,45,47,76,155,156Diabolic possession,195,196Diet,31,36for melancholies,185Dioscorides,26Dioscoros,5Diphtheria,27,128Diseases of nervous system,30of women,156Drainage,97tubes,125Duke, Robert,46Duns Scotus,110Dura mater, infection of,93Ebers Papyrus,137Education, characters of medieval,12Elias,41Elinus,41English, King of the,40Epileptic conditions,30Exorcism,195Eye diseases, bile in,152wash, urine of infants as,152Fabiola, Hospital of,171Fee, law as to,44Fever,32Filaria medinensis,77Fistulæ,100Fistulas,127Four masters of Salerno,47,91Fracture of the skull,91of the thigh, extension in,123Fractures of the skull,94depressed,93Frederick II.,42law of,43,206Gaddesden, John of,70,119Galen,18,19,26,47,72,116Gariopontus,41Gerssdorff, Hans von,135Gilbert,69Giovanni of Arcoli,143Glaucoma,152Gonorrhœa,123Gregory, Major,189of Tours,181Guarna, Rebecca,157Guerini,142,143Guido of Montpellier,64Gurlt,9,47,69,90,93,95,96,99,106,110,113,121,146,156Guy de Chauliac.SeeChauliacGuy of Montpellier.SeeMontpellierHæmoptysis,30Hangman’s rope,28Hare-lip,134Hartmann von der Aue,64Headache,30Hemicrania,30Herbs,26Hernia,68operations too frequent,122radical cure of,121reduction of,122Hernias,99Herodotus,137Hippocrates,26,47Holy Ghost Hospital,172Hospital,64,65at Lübeck,178for lunatics,187of Bedlam,188of Belisarius,171of Fabiola,171of Pope Symmachus,171of St. Basil,170of St. Jean,178of Tonnerre,176Hospitals,169Christian,24for lepers,181of the Holy Ghost,172royal,174Hotel Dieu,188“Hudibras,”107Hugh of Lucca,96,104Humours,54Hymns, Latin,48Hysteria,34Indian surgeons,106Infection of dura mater,93Infirmaries in monasteries,24Inhalations, steam,29Insane, care of the,34,183,189Insanity,194lash for,198Intestine, suture of,134Intestines, wounds of,99Italy the postgraduate medical centre,118John of Salisbury,64of Gaddesden,70,119King of the English,49Laceration of the middle meningeal artery,92Lanfranc,11,80,96,110Lash for insanity,198Latin hymns,48Law as to fee,44of Frederick II.,43,206Lepers, hospitals for,181Ligatures,125“Lilium Medicinæ,”73Linear cicatrices,101Lister, Lord,103Louis IX.,110Lübeck, hospital at,178Lunatics, hospital for,187Lucca, Hugh of,96,104Lyons, Archbishop of,63Manzolini, Madame,165Mad dog,68,80Magnetism,15Maimonides,35,79Medical oath,44schools at universities,74superstitions,22Medici,164Medicine and surgery, relations of,115popular,22Medieval education, characters of,12medicine, periods of,21textbooks,88Melancholics, diet for,185Mental defectives, colonies for,202Meningeal artery, laceration of,92Mercuriade,157Mercury, use of,123Mesue,47Methrodoros,5Metrorrhagia,33Middle Ages, limits of,viiMilk,29,52bath,78Monasteries, infirmaries in,24Mondeville, Henri de,11,66,114,116Mondino,96,164Monte Cassino,39Montpellier, Guy de,10,61,173Moorish physicians,62Morbus Gallicus,124Morley, Henry,17Morgagni,84Muratori,76Nasal cautery,148polypi,147speculum,149Nature study,13Needling for cataract,151Nefretykes,85Nerve suture,113Nervous system,30Nicaise,166Nose, surgery of the,106Number of bones,54of veins,54Nurses, order of,180Nutritionper rectum,77Oath, medical,44Œsophagus tube,123Ophthalmology,151Opium,29Order of nurses,180Ordronaux,47,50Oribasius,28Orthodontia,139Pagel,56,127,194Pammachius,171Paris,40,110Passavant, Jean,111Paul of Ægina,6,27,33,138,146Peregrinus,15Perineum, rupture of,157Perugia, Charter of the University,212Pfolspeundt, Heinrich von,133,134Physician, conduct of the,58Physicians, Moorish,62Pitard, Jean,114Plague, bubonic,77Plastic surgery,106,134Polypi, nasal,147Pontus,41Pope Symmachus, Hospital of,171Popular medicine,22Power, D’Arcy,127Psycho-analysis,196Pure drug law,43Pus,103Puschmann,56Putrefaction,97Rabies,81,128Rectal feeding,78surgery,127Red light treatment,70,82Regimen,48,49sanitatis,47Renal disease,85Rhazes,35,148Roger,42,56,70,90,103Roland,56,103Rolando,91Roman medicine, origin of,2“Rosa Anglica,”70Rupture of the perineum,157St. Basil, Hospital of,170St. Benedict,24St. Bernard,63of Clairvaux,161St. Hildegarde,160St. Jean, Hospital of,178Saintsbury, Professor,48Salerno,7,37,75,155curriculum at,38Salerno, school of,57Salicet, William of,96,105Salisbury, John of,64Salvino de Armato,152Santa Sophia, architect of,5School of Salerno,57Scotus, Duns,40Sects in surgery,116Sick, care of the,24,25Skin of the snake,28Skull, fractures of,91,94opening the,92Smallpox,35,70Snake, skin of,28Sore throat,31Spectacles,73,152Steam inhalations,29Stiffened bandages,123Students,65Superstitions, medical,22Surgeon, training of,117Surgeons, Arabian,140barber,11Indian,106temperance in,97Surgery, antiseptic,104of the nose,106plastic,106,134rectal,127sects in,116Surgical specialities,136Syphilis,123arsenic treatment of,124Tagliacozzi,107Taranta, Valesco de,71Tartar, removal of,141Teeth, artificial,142cleaning of,140filling of,145preservation of,139,144straightening of,139Temperaments,54Temperance in surgeons,97Testicle excision in hernia operations,121Tetanus,130Textbooks, medieval,88Theodoric,70,96,102,113Therapeutics,23Thigh, fracture of,123Thomas Aquinas,110Thyroid gland,28Tonnerre, Hospital of,176Tooth-powder,140Tracheotomy,147,150Trallianus,4Trephining,93,94Trichiasis,153Trotula,155Truss,73,122Union by first intention,100Universities, medical schools at,74Urine of infants as eye-wash,152Use of mercury,123Uvula, affections of the,150Valentine, Basil,84Valesco de Taranta,71Veins, number of,54Vicious sexual habits,28Vigo, John de,145Viollet le Duc,176Virchow,171,174,181William of Salicet,96,105Wine as antiseptic,101Women, diseases of,156in medicine,10physicians,166professors,155students,155Wood dogge,129Wood-hound,193Wounds, abdominal,98dry treatment of,125of intestines,99treatment of,98Yperman,123,131

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