Medicine in the Crusades - Mitchell

[Mitra]

Not references with roman history, but good chapters with technical informations on white weapons wounds (and they archeological evidences) and their treatment , tortures and mutilations effects, surgery and bloodletting; arab ,christian and byzantine medicine.

[Martin Moser]

Not references with roman history, but good chapters with technical informations on white weapons wounds (and they archeological evidences) and their treatment , tortures and mutilations effects, surgery and bloodletting.

Thanks for mentioning this, Davide, ordered it at the library right away!

arab ,christian and byzantine medicine.

That in itself makes it a quasi-reference to roman medicine, which lived on with the arabs and made its way back to europe through them eventually.

[Mitra]

Only one contraindication , Martin, it is a expensive book.

I'm read some time ago of a found evidence of drilling skull surgery in XI century England in a little village. Probably a job of a itinerant doctor; the operation has been successful.

[Tarbicus]

[amazon]Medicine in the Crusades[/amazon]

Looks really interesting. Thanks.

[Marcus Mummius]

Only one contraindication , Martin, it is a expensive book.

I'm read some time ago of a found evidence of drilling skull surgery in XI century England in a little village. Probably a job of a itinerant doctor; the operation has been successful.

There is evidence that the Guanche people that habitated the Canary Islands, before they were colonised by Spain, did skull surgery with stone tools (they never 'evolved' past the stone age). So that's not so impressive

[Martin Moser]

Only one contraindication , Martin, it is a expensive book.

Yes, saw that and that's why I'll get it from the library ;-) )

I'm read some time ago of a found evidence of drilling skull surgery in XI century England in a little village. Probably a job of a itinerant doctor; the operation has been successful.

Actually this operation is known since the stone age and was performed at some stage in most cultures it seems. Aulus Cornelius Celsus writes very detailed about how when and by what various methods it could/should be performed in his De Medicina. There are English and German translations available, for those interested:

On Medicine (Loeb Classical Library) by Celsus, W.G. Spencer
# Paperback: 513 pages
# Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd (December 1935)
# ISBN-10: 0434992925
# ISBN-13: 978-0434992928

Ãœber die Arzneiwissenschaft von Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Eduard Scheller, Walter Frieboes
# Gebundene Ausgabe: 862 Seiten
# Verlag: G. Olms (1967)
# ASIN: B0000BQCPH

[Mitra]

Yep i know skull drilling has been know in classical time, but the literary evidences dont existed for early medieval time. So we are before a oral exchange of high level know-how.

The surgery on the man saved him from sure death: a skull zone of 9x10 cm was raised for remove fragments of skull in a depressed zone , caused from a violent blow.