LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| AMPUTATION BELOW THE KNEE | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| HOLY GHOST HOSPITAL | [64] |
| SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS OF GUY DE CHAULIAC | [118] |
| BRUNSCHWIG’S SURGICAL ARMAMENTARIUM | [134] |
| SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE ARABS | [138] |
| THIRTEENTH-CENTURY HOSPITAL INTERIOR | [172] |
| LEPER HOSPITAL OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW | [176] |
| THE HARBLEDOWN HOSPITAL | [180] |
“When we think of all the work, big with promise of the future, that went on in those centuries which modern writers in their ignorance used once to set apart and stigmatize as the ‘Dark Ages’; when we consider how the seeds of what is noblest in modern life were then painfully sown upon the soil which Imperial Rome had prepared; when we think of the various work of a Gregory, a Benedict, a Boniface, an Alfred, a Charlemagne, we feel that there is a sense in which the most brilliant achievements of pagan antiquity are dwarfed in comparison with these.”—Fiske: The Beginnings of New England, or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty.
TO
MOST REVEREND P. J. HAYES
ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK
AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF GRATITUDE FOR THE PRIVILEGE
OF CO-OPERATING IN THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
THAT IS A MONUMENT TO HIS PRUDENT WISDOM