Medieval Medicine

by James J. Walsh

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AN AMPUTATION BELOW THE KNEE

This is the first picture of an amputation known

From Gerssdorff’s woodcut, reproduced in Gurlt’s “Geschichte der Chirurgie”

MEDIEVAL
MEDICINE

BY
JAMES J. WALSH
K.C.St.G., M.D., Ph.D., Sc.D., Litt.D.
MEDICAL DIRECTOR, SOCIOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, AND
PROFESSOR PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY CATHEDRAL COLLEGE, NEW YORK
FELLOW A.M.A., A.A.A.S., MEMBER OF THE FRENCH, GERMAN, AND ITALIAN
SOCIETIES FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, ETC.
AUTHOR OF “MAKERS OF MODERN MEDICINE,” AND OTHER VOLUMES ON
MEDICAL HISTORY

“Multum egerunt qui ante nos fuerunt, sed non peregerunt. Suspiciendi tamen sunt et ritu Deorum colendi.” Seneca: Epist. LXIV.

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1920