[24] Green, op. cit. [note [4]], page 187.
[25] Karl Sudhoff, Deutsche medizinische Inkunabeln (Leipzig, 1908); Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin heft 2/3. Sir William Osler, Incunabula Medica: A Study of the Earliest Printed Medical Books, 1467-1480 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1923).
[26] Francisco Guerra, “Medical Almanacs of the American Colonial Period,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, volume 16 (1961), pages 235-237. The number of veins illustrated in the vein man varied a great deal but became fewer after the seventeenth century.
[27] Talbot, op. cit. [note [15]], pages 127-131.
[28] Guerra, op. cit. [note [26]], pages 237; Marion Barber Stowell, Early American Almanacs: The Colonial Weekday Bible (New York: Burt Franklin, 1977). The latter work contains numerous illustrations of “anatomies” from colonial almanacs.
[29] “Original Letters,” General William F. Gordon to Thomas Walker Gilmar, 11 December 1832, William and Mary Quarterly, volume 21 (July 1912), page 67.
[30] Talbot, op. cit. [note [15]], pages 50, 51. For another view of the religious impact upon medieval medical and surgical practices, see James J. Walsh, The Popes and Science (New York: Fordham University Press, 1908), pages 167-198.
[31] Thorndike, op. cit. [note [3]], page 477.
[32] Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote de la Mancha, translated by Walter Starkie (New York: Mentor, 1963), pages 91, 92.
[33] Charles Alverson, “Surgeon Abel’s Exotic Bleeding Bowls,” Prism, volume 2 (July 1974), pages 16-18; John K. Crellin, “Medical Ceramics,” in A Catalogue of the English and Dutch Collections in the Museum of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1969), pages 273-279.