Medicine Before The Plague
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Medicine Before the Plague
Author | : Michael Rogers McVaugh,Michael R. McVaugh |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2002-07-11 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0521524547 |
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An account of the medical world in eastern Spain in the decades before the Black Death.
Medieval Medicine and the Plague
Author | : Lynne Elliott |
Publsiher | : Crabtree Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 077871358X |
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Learn the history of medieval disease and how medical treatments were worse than the disease.
The Plague and Medicine in the Middle Ages
Author | : Fiona Macdonald |
Publsiher | : Gareth Stevens |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0836858980 |
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Describes the illnesses, plagues, diagnoses, and treatments during the Middle Ages.
Doctoring the Black Death
Author | : John Aberth |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781442223912 |
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The Black Death of the late Middle Ages is often described as the greatest natural disaster in the history of humankind. More than fifty million people, half of Europe’s population, died during the first outbreak alone from 1347 to 1353. Plague then returned fifteen more times through to the end of the medieval period in 1500, posing the greatest challenge to physicians ever recorded in the history of the medical profession. This engrossing book provides the only comprehensive history of the medical response to the Black Death over time. Leading historian John Aberth has translated many unknown plague treatises from nine different languages that vividly illustrate the human dimensions of the horrific scourge. He includes doctors’ remarkable personal anecdotes, showing how their battles to combat the disease (which often afflicted them personally) and the scale and scope of the plague led many to question ancient authorities. Dispelling many myths and misconceptions about medicine during the Middle Ages, Aberth shows that plague doctors formulated a unique and far-reaching response as they began to treat plague as a poison, a conception that had far-reaching implications, both in terms of medical treatment and social and cultural responses to the disease in society as a whole.
Cultures of Plague
Author | : Cohn Jr. |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2011-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780191615887 |
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Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop. This study of plague imprints from academic medical treatises to plague poetry highlights the most feared and devastating epidemic of the sixteenth-century, one that threatened Italy top to toe from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. From erudite definitions, remote causes, cures and recipes, physicians now directed their plague writings to the prince and discovered their most 'valiant remedies' in public health: strict segregation of the healthy and ill, cleaning streets and latrines, addressing the long-term causes of plague-poverty. Those outside the medical profession joined the chorus. In the heartland of Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians along with those outside the profession questioned the foundations of Galenic and Renaissance medicine, even the role of God. Assaults on medieval and Renaissance medicine did not need to await the Protestant-Paracelsian alliance of seventeenth-century in northern Europe. Instead, creative forces planted by the pandemic of 1575-8 sowed seeds of doubt and unveiled new concerns and ideas within that supposedly most conservative form of medical writing, the plague tract. Relying on health board statistics and dramatized with eyewitness descriptions of bizarre happenings, human misery, and suffering, these writers created the structure for plague classics of the eighteenth century, and by tracking the contagion's complex and crooked paths, they anticipated trends of nineteenth-century epidemiology.
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West
Author | : David Herlihy |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1997-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674744233 |
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Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of nationalism. This book, which displays a distinguished scholar's masterly synthesis of diverse materials, reveals that the Black Death can be considered the cornerstone of the transformation of Europe.
Practical Medicine from Salerno to the Black Death
Author | : Luis García Ballester |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0521431018 |
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Essays on the practical aspects of medieval European medicine.
Plague Hospitals
Author | : Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781317080282 |
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Developed throughout early modern Europe, lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease, in particular the prevention and treatment of plague. The lazaretti served as isolation hospitals, quarantine centres, convalescent homes, cemeteries, and depots for the disinfection or destruction of infected goods. The first permanent example of this institution was established in Venice in 1423 and between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries tens of thousands of patients passed through the doors. Founded on lagoon islands, the lazaretti tell us about the relationship between the city and its natural environment. The plague hospitals also illustrate the way in which medical structures in Venice intersected with those of piety and poor relief and provided a model for public health which was influential across Europe. This is the first detailed study of how these plague hospitals functioned, where they were situated, who worked there, what it was like to stay there, and how many people survived. Comparisons are made between the Venetian lazaretti and similar institutions in Padua, Verona and other Italian and European cities. Centred on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, during which time there were both serious plague outbreaks in Europe and periods of relative calm, the book explores what the lazaretti can tell us about early modern medicine and society and makes a significant contribution to both Venetian history and our understanding of public health in early modern Europe, engaging with ideas of infection and isolation, charity and cure, dirt, disease and death.