Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine: Medicine and Anatomy

An annotated translation and study of the evolution of Vesalius's scientific development.


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an annotated translation

On natural philosophy and medicine : selections from Cause et cure

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Full-size, full-color facsimile of the manuscript Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek series nova 2641, containing Gherardo of Cremona's Latin translation of Maqālah fī al-ʻamal bi-al-yad (treatise 30 of Taṣrīf li-man ʻajiza ʻan al-taʼlīf), accompanied by a volume of commentary.

The medieval health handbook

Edited from a photostat copy of ms. Ashburnham 189 of the Laurentian library at Florence.

All 50 illustrations of consultations in a medieval surgery, accompanied by a modern commentary, from Roger of Parma's Surgery (c. 1180) the first original treatise on surgery to be written in the medieval west.

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Units 11-15, 21. Medical incunabula

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL

Venice, 1568

Netherlands, 1739

Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium sine controuersia principis Aphorismoru[m] sectiones septem : recens è Graeco in Latinum sermonem conuersae, & luculentissimis, iisdem[́que] breuissimis commentariis illustratae & expositae / adiectis annotationibus, in quibus quotquot sunt in Galeni commentariis loci difficiles, ad vnguem explicantur, per Leonhartum Fuchsium scholae medicae Tubingensis professorem publicum.
Paris, 1545

Additional types of this genre include volumes published in 1657 and 1767.

Vesalius contributed to this edition.

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An encyclopedic text in 68 volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints.

Located in Pius Spec Coll Rare Bks.

t. 1-7. De servorum Dei beatificatione, et beatorum canonizatione -- t. 8. De sacrosancto missae sacrificio -- t. 9. De festis domini nostri Jesu Christi, et Beatae Mariae Virginis -- t. 10. Institutiones ecclesiasticas ad usum Academiae Liturgicae Conimbricensis -- t. 11. De synodo dioecesana -- t. 12-13. Quaestiones canonicas, et morales -- t. 14. Opuscula miscellanea -- t. 15-17. Bullarium.