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Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice
by Nancy G. Siraisi
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, London, 1990, 250pp, PB
[Western Europe, 12-15C]

Chapters
1. The Formation of Western European Medicine
2. Practitioners and Conditions of Practice
3. Medical Education
4. Physiological and Anatomical Knowledge
5. Disease and Treatment
6. Surgeons and Surgery

• Epilogue: The Medical Renaissance
• Notes
• Guide to Further Reading
• Selected Primary Sources Available in English Translation

Illustrations
1. Female personification of medicine
2. Canon of Avicenna in Hebrew
3. Practitioner's handbook
4. A housecall
5. Consultation on the practitioner's premises
6. Deathbed scene
7. Sickbed scene
8. Medical authorities
9. A learned physician in his study
10. University lecture
11. Lecture on herbs
12. Medical instruction at the bedside
13. Localization of brain function
14. Dissection scene
15. Anatomical drawings ("five figure series")
16. The skeleton
17. Parts of the body
18. Male anatomical figure (Leonardo da Vinci)
19. Female anatomical figure (Leonardo da Vinci)
20. The brain (Leonardo da Vinci)
21. The stars and the human body
22. Preparation and sale of theriac
23. Regimen chart (Tacuinam sanitatis)
24. Uroscopy chart in the form of a wheel
25. Treatment of the ear
26. Treatment by cupping
27. A guide to bloodletting
28. Bloodletting
29. Collecting medicinal herbs
30. A medication and its uses
31. Naturalistic plant illustration
32. An emetic
33. Purchase of a cough remedy
34. An animal remedy
35. Mineral substances use in medicine
36. A magical plant remedy and procedure
37. Surgical instruments
38. Surgical instruments
39. Suturing
40. Treatment of an abdominal wound
41. Surgical instruments as page decoratin
42. Treatment of a compound fracture
43. Venemous animal bites and stings
44. Treatment of anal fistula (John of Arderne)