Itinerant surgeons in the holy Roman Empire (1500-1750) Michael Stolberg

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stolberg, Michael, 1957- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in the Renaissance

Cambridge elements. Elements in the Renaissance 2631-9101

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physicians.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

History

Sources

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2026

Summary:

"Drawing on extensive research in dozens of town and state archives, this Element offers the first comprehensive study of the (mostly itinerant) surgeons or “operators” who specialized in couching cataracts, extracting bladder stones, and fixing hernias and “harelips” in the Holy Roman Empire in the period between 1500 and 1750. It highlights their unique place in the medical market, outlines the considerable differences in their training, expertise, and reputation, and describes the various operations they performed. It studies their interactions and financial arrangements with the patients and their families, analyses conflicts arising from bad outcomes and insufficient warnings about the risks involved and looks at the ways in which local and territorial authorities sought to keep inexperienced and incompetent operators from practicing, while securing access to the skilled ones, whom they sometimes even employed against a salary"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Outlines of a professional figure

Cutting

Operators and patients

Policing

Epilogue : academic operative surgery

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed August 6, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Stolberg, Michael, 1957- Itinerant surgeons in the holy Roman Empire (1500-1750)

ISBN:

9781009731171

1009731173

OCLC:

1594888734

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license