Front matter
Reading edition
Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/medievalmedicine00wals
Medical History Manuals
General Editor—John D. Comrie, M.A., B.SC., M.D., F.R.C.P.E.
MEDIEVAL MEDICINE
IN THE SAME SERIES
PASTEUR AND AFTER PASTEUR By STEPHEN PAGET, F.R.C.S. With 8 full-page Illustrations.
THE EDINBURGH SCHOOL OF SURGERY BEFORE LISTER By ALEX. MILES, M.D., F.R.C.S. With 8 full-page Illustrations.
A. AND C. BLACK, LTD., 4 SOHO SQ., LONDON, W. 1
Larger Image
AN AMPUTATION BELOW THE KNEE
This is the first picture of an amputation known
From Gerssdorff’s woodcut, reproduced in Gurlt’s “Geschichte der Chirurgie”
MEDIEVAL MEDICINE
BY JAMES J. WALSH K.C.St.G., M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D., Litt.D. MEDICAL DIRECTOR, SOCIOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, AND PROFESSOR PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY CATHEDRAL COLLEGE, NEW YORK FELLOW A.M.A., A.A.A.S., MEMBER OF THE FRENCH, GERMAN, AND ITALIAN SOCIETIES FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, ETC. AUTHOR OF “MAKERS OF MODERN MEDICINE,” AND OTHER VOLUMES ON MEDICAL HISTORY
“Multum egerunt qui ante nos fuerunt, sed non peregerunt. Suspiciendi tamen sunt et ritu Deorum colendi.” Seneca: Epist. LXIV.
A. & C. BLACK, LTD. 4, 5 & 6, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.C. 1 1920
Made in Great Britain.