Health, Disease and Healing in Medieval Culture
This volume of studies seeks an anthropological view of medicine and the healing arts as they were situated within the lives of medieval people. Miracle cures and charms as well as drugs and surgery fall within the scope of the authors represented here, a
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Also by Sheila Campbell THE MOSAICS OF ANTIOCH THE MALCOVE COLLECTION THE MOSAICS OF APHRODISIAS IN CARIA
Also by Bert Hall THE TECHNOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 'ANONYMOUS OF THE HUSSITE WARS' STUDIES IN PRE-MODERN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE
(co-editor)
Also by David Klausner RECORDS OF EARLY ENGLISH DRAMA: HEREFORD AND WORCESTER
Health, Disease and Healing in Medieval Culture Edited by
Sheila Campbell Bert Hall David Klausner Centre tor Medieval Studies, University ot Toronto
© Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto 1992
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1992 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages First published 1992 by MACMILLAN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL LID Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the worid
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Health, disease and healing in medieval culture. 1. Medicine, history I. Campbell. Sheila D. (Sheila Diana) 1938- 11. Hall, Bert III. Klausner, David 610.9
ISBN 978-1-349-21884-4 ISBN 978-1-349-21882-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-21882-0
JERRY STANNARD
(1929-1988)
Inmemoriam
Contents List of Illustrations
ix
Abbreviations
x
Preface Sheila Campbell. Bert Hall. and David Klausner
xi
Introduction Faye Marie Getz
xiii
Notes on Contributors
xxi
1 The Disease That We Call Cancer Pauline Thompson
1
2 The Anglo-Saxon View of the Causes of Disease Audrey Meaney
12
3 A drynke flat men callen dwale to make a man to slepe whyle men kerven hem: A Surgical Anesthetic from Late Medieval England Linda E. Voigts and Robert P. Hudson
34
4 The Third Instrument of Medicine: Some Accounts of Surgery in Medieval Ieeland IanMcDougall
57
5 Mythic Mediation in Healing Incantations Edina Boz6Jcy
84
Anointing the Siek and the Dying in Christian Antiquity and the Early Medieval West Frederick Paxton
93
7 The Healing Power of the Hebrew Tongue: An Example
103
6
from Late Thirteenth-Century England Mark Zier 8 Changes in the Regimina sanitatis: The Role of the Jewish Physicians Luis Garcfa-Ballester
119
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Contents
9 The Sickdish in EarIy French Recipe Collections
132
Terence Scully 10 To Prolong Life and Promote HeaIth: Baconian Alchemy
141
and Pharmacy in the English Learned Tradition
Faye Marie Getz 11
The Visions of Saints Anthony and Guthlac
152
M. L. Cameron
12 Three Not-So-Miraculous Miracles
159
lohn Wortley 13 Great Figures in Arabic Medicine, According to Ibn al-QiftI
169
Franr;oise Micheau 14 The Int
