My Writings:
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Medieval Medical Regimen - what the informed period lay-person probably knew about staying healthy.
6/07
13th and 14th Century Medical Physics - the scientific foundation of medieval medicine.
13th-14th Century Medieval Medical Training and Texts - a crude overview.
Medieval Military Medicine. 6/07
Selected Medieval Medical References. 6/07
Medieval Russian Medicine - another overview.
Primary Sources:
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Works by Galen - okay, they only have one but...
Ancient Medical E-texts from Medicina Antiqua - Hippocrates and Galen.
Avicenna's Canon of Medicine: a precise
The Canon of Avicenna - facsimile of Arabic text.
Unani Medicine - a medical tradition descended from the medicine of Avicenna.
The Aberdeen Bestiary - includes an extensive entry on human physiology.
Medical Miscellany - a "full" facsimile on-line at Schoenberg.
Gutun Owain Manuscript - a Welsh Medical Miscellany.
Tacuinum Sanitatis - excerpts from several manuscripts at Gode Cookery.
Macer Floridus' De viribus herbarum - facsimile of 1489 text.
Regimen sanitatis Salerni, 1535
Culpeper's The English Physitian - 1652
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
History of Pharmacy: Digital Books and Image Collections
Images from the History of Medicine from the National Library of Medicine.
Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts - the British Library.
The Hudson-Dawe Dial - an astronomical volvelle.
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Jadwiga's Herb Page by Metressa Jadwiga Zajaczkowa.
Macer Floridus' De viribus herbarum - facsimile of 1489 text.
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
Ethnomedica - researching British Herbal Tradition.
Commonly Used Medicinal Plants - from Mostly Medieval, a site which has suffered from some partial remodeling.
Henriette's Classic Herbal Texts - the name says it all.
An Ancient Slavic Herbal - I don't know how reliable this site is.
On Urines:
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1364 English Urine Wheel
1506 German Urine Chart from the Library of Congress Webpage
The Seynge of Urynes - period text about urine interpretation.
Copenhagen Poster about Urine Wheels
Reconstruction, research and reenactment:
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Notes on constructing a vade mecum
Reconstruction of a Medieval Apothecary
Roman Surgical Instruments
Surgical Instruments from Ancient Rome
Cookery and the Application of Humor Theory by Channon Mondoux.
Ars Medicinae - a very pretty site, in French.
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