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Healing & Society in Medieval England
A Middle English Translation of the Pharmaceutical Writings of Gilbertus Anglicus
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Originally composed in Latin by Gilbertus Anglicus (Gilbert the Englishman), his Compendium of Medicine was a primary text of the medical revolution in thirteenth-century Europe. Composed mainly of medicinal recipes, it offered advice on diagnosis, medicinal preparation, and prognosis. In the fifteenth-century it was translated into Middle English to accommodate a widening audience for learning and medical "secrets."

Faye Marie Getz provides a critical edition of the Middle English text, with an extensive introduction to the learned, practical, and social components of medieval medicine and a summary of the text in modern English. Getz also draws on both the Latin and Middle English texts to create an extensive glossary of little-known Middle English pharmaceutical and medical vocabulary.


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ISBN-13: 9780299129347
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: December, 2010
Pages: 456
Weight: 400g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: General Issues, Pharmacology

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