Medieval History
My five-year-old burned her leg on my curling iron today. I only asked her five times to give me some space in the bathroom BEFORE she knocked the curling iron onto her leg, but whatevs. After I cleaned her up and she was properly bandaged, she was impressed with what I had done. "Mom, you are a Doctor Mama!"
In honor of my little one, a smattering of illuminated medical treatises.
Apuleius, Folio #: fol. 023r, English. Centaury was supposed to have been used medicinally by the centaur Chiron, who is shown here holding a sprig of Centauria Maior. Picture of plants and the complaints for which they are curative. The manuscript contains miscellaneous medical and herbal texts. Average folio-size: 304 x 206 mm. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
Various authors including Albucasis, Medical treatises, Folio #: fol. 003r. Middle 14th century. Made in Southern Italy. Constantine the African, a monk of Monte Cassino, lectures on uroscopy. The pictures including this one are apparently copies of an earlier manuscript. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
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Medieval History
Medieval Medical Treatises
My five-year-old burned her leg on my curling iron today. I only asked her five times to give me some space in the bathroom BEFORE she knocked the curling iron onto her leg, but whatevs. After I cleaned her up and she was properly bandaged, she was impressed with what I had done. "Mom, you are a Doctor Mama!"
In honor of my little one, a smattering of illuminated medical treatises.
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A rare medieval book gives an insight into the bizarre medical practices used 500 years ago. It has gone on display for the first time at the University of Aberdeen. The De Hortus Sanitatis, which translates as the Garden of Health, shows some of the...
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Professor Peter E Pormann from The University of Manchester says too few people realise European and Arab doctors were part of the same medical tradition which played a pivotal role in the development of medicine as we know it. ?Arabic was the scientific...
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Book of Hours, folio #: fol. 078r, second quarter of 16th century, French. Shelfmark: MS. Douce 135 Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. "Sutarius", richly dressed youth. Below: Satan and God discuss Job. Gospel Lectionary, Pericope,...
- 'monokeros,' Or Unicorns In Imagery And Myth, Ii
Relief showing a Stag and Unicorn, ca. 950, Italian, near Nola. This relief from a church in Nola (near Naples) formed part of a transenna, a low wall that demarcated the church's presbytery, an area reserved for the clergy. The motif of opposed...
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