History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages, Vol. 14 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages, Vol. 14 Obstacles to the study of anatomy - Prejudices of the people - Prosperity and decline of the medical faculty at Basle, 41-42. Vesalius on the condition of practical medicine - Decline of surgery - No organised clinical instruction at the German universities - The medical faculties step-children of the universities of the time - Attendance at foreign universities, 42-46. Surgery in the hands of barbers and shavers seldom rose above the level of handwork - Reports of contemporaries on the melancholy condition of surgery - unconscientiousness of the surgeons, 46-48. Malpractice with materia medica - Defective official supervision of apothecaries - Proceedings of the Jew doctors, 48-52. Professors of the healing art figure as comic characters in the carnival plays - What a learned physician of the day boasts of accomplishing, 52-55. Judgment on the period of Church schism in the form of infectious plagues and diseases, 56. Leprosy and syphilis - Ravages of syphilis and precautions against it - Golden time for charlatans and alchemists, 56-60. The ´English sweat´ - Ravages of this complaint - Caspar Kegeler´s book of medicine, 61-63. Terror of the plague - Flight from it - Helplessness of the doctors, 63-64. The epidemic of 1541 - Appalling mortality from the plague epidemics - Ravages of the bubonic plague in 1562 ff. - The so-called Hungarian disease, 64-70. The year of famine and death, 1571, 70-72. Universality of the plague epidemics in 1574-1577 - Ingratitude of the sick to the doctors - verses of Guarinoni - Spread of the plague by infected stuffs, 72. Prophecies of the calendar-makers concerning the eighties of the sixteenth century - Influenza epidemics - Ravages of the pestilence. 1581-1582, 72-74. Appearance of the disease raphania, 1581 - Ravages of this plague in Nuremberg and Basle, 1582-1583 - Victims to it in the Grisons, 1585 and 1586, 74-78. The great mortality year, 1585, at Breslau - Comparison of the plague of the sixteenth century with the cholera - Caspar Schwenkfeld on raphania.78-79. Calamities of the last years of the sixteenth century - Pestilence, famine, storms, cold and dearth of water - The raphania electuary of the Marburg medical faculty - Diminution of the population of Germany. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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