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Medieval medicine : the art of healing, from head to toe / Luke Demaitre.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Demaitre, Luke E., 1935-
- Series:
- Praeger series on the Middle Ages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Medieval.
- History of Medicine.
- History, Medieval.
- Medical Subjects:
- History of Medicine.
- History, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2013]
- Contents:
- Learning to heal
- Paradigms of disease : fever, pestilence, and poison
- The body surface : tumors and trauma
- Head problems, from hair to epilepsy
- The face and the senses
- Uvula to diaphragm, and "passiones spirituales"
- From gullet to gut : "passiones nutritivorum"
- From the haunches to the heels, and "passiones generativorum".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780275984854
- 0275984850
- 9780313038426
- 0313038422
- OCLC:
- 815717079
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