MEDIEVAL MEDICINE

       

Post-mortem examinations were rare well into the Middle Ages, largely due to religious and intellectual scruples. This early representation (c. 1300) of a dissection shows a surgeon and a monk.

 Hildegard Von Bingen (1098-1179)

 Hieronymus Fracastorius

 History of Syphilis

 Giordano Bruno

 Avicenna

 Medieval Medicine -Aliments and Cures

 Medieval Hospitals - Dodd Memorial Library, Vellore (IN)

 Medieval Medical Images - UCLA Digital Library

 Islamic Medical Manuscripts - National Library of Medicine

La Scuola Medica Salernitana [in Italian]

'The Salerno Book of Health' [I Carr] - Univ of Manitoba (CA)

La Scuola Medica SalernitanaBiografie di medici medievali [in Italian] - (IT)

Salerno, the Mother of Medical Schools - NLM, History of Medicine Div. (US)

Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum - Wikipedia

Trotula of Salerno

Medieval Woman Writers

The Patrons of the Medical Field - Catholic Community Forum

Medieval Medicine [W Osler; 1923 printing] - University of Virginia(US)

Ancient medicine-Cosmetic formulation

On the Principles of Nature [Thomas Aquinas; transl. by G Klima] - Fordham Univ.

Sur l'Art de l'Alchimie [Thomas D'Aquin; in French]

On the History of Quarantine – NOVA

Mythical Plants of the Middle Ages [JL Matterer]

Health and Medieval Daily Life - Annenberg/CPB

Medieval Manuscripts - NLM (US)

Medieval technology Timeline [PJ Gans]

Byzantine Medicine - Univ. of Virginia

Storia Medievale - Medioevo e Medicina

Procopius: The Plague, 542 - Medieval Sourcebook

La Medicina Medievale (Europa) [in Italian] - Accademia Jaufre' Rudel (IT)

Some Case Studies - Univ. of Virginia

Bibliography of Medieval Medicine

On the Sick - Rule of Benedict, Chapter 36

Arabic Numerals [PJ Gans]

The Impact of Translations of Muslim Sciences on the West

The Works of Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1170-1253)

Life&Works of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) –

Population Estimates [PJ Gans]

The Articella - NLM, History of Medicine Div. (US)

On Magnets and the Roman d'Ene'as, and the invention of spectacles [PJ Gans]

Guy de Chauliac - Britannica.Com

On the Early Treatment of Bladder Stones - Collect Medical Antiques

An illustration of a Dissection around 1300 A.D.

The Foundation of the University of Heidelberg A.D. 1386 - Avalon Project/Yale (US)

Some notes on Medieval Medicine, a Web project by [J Yousif] - Univ of Oklahoma (US)

Bubonic Plague in Renaissance Europe [T Mack] - Virginia Tech (US)

The Plague - Decamerone Web

On Public morals in renaissance Florence - Rice Univ., and Concerning A Mortality in the City of Florence in Which Many People Died [M di Coppo Stefani, 1348] - Univ. of Virginia/Charlottesville (US)

Poisons and Antidotes in the Middle Ages [information collected by MS Harris]

Witchcraft Documents (15th Century) - Medieval Source Book

An Anatomical Illustration [from late 13th century] - Bodleian Library, Oxford (UK)

Scholasticism in the 13th Century - J Maritain Center

Explore the Ancients and Alchemists - Chemical Heritage Foundation

A brief note about the alchemist Pseudo-Geber ('False Geber') - Wikipedia

Roger Bacon ('Doctor Mirabilis') - Catholic Encyclopedia

Roger Bacon: Tract on the Tincture and Oil of Antimony

Roger Bacon's Place in the History of Alchemy, a personal view [E Brehm]

A collection of Alchemy related texts - The Alchemy Web Site

Brief notes on The Philosopher's Stone - the Mystica

Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry [a medieval book of hours] - Univ of Chicago (US)

The Medieval Cookery

The Old Operating Theatre, Herb Garret, St Thomas's Hospital - (UK)

Medicine in the 13-16th centuries: Universities, Hospitals, Anatomical Revolution - Universita di Ca. IT./Bibioteca Biomedica

The Medieval Review [reviews of books within the area Medieval Studies] 

Western Michigan Univ. (US)

Prof. CAMILLO O. DI CICCO
Primario Dermatologo Idoneità Nazionale
Member of European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV)
Member of American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM)