Medicine in the Middle Ages
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Medicine in the Middle Ages
14.99 €
This book is dedicated to the medicine of the Middle Ages - mysterious, strange and surprising. How did people in that era manage to protect themselves from many ailments, including deadly ones, which fell on them? How could medicine exist if all sciences were subordinated to theology? Could a doctor test medicines without going to the stake of the Inquisition? Do we know medieval prescriptions? Can we trust the medicines that existed then? Or would we have died from them at the first sneeze? Would we have survived if we had fallen into the hands of a surgeon who had no medical education and operated without anesthesia? Did this surgeon know anatomy? What if he had taken it upon himself to relieve our headaches by drilling a hole in our skulls? Would we have survived if we had eaten viper meat and drank broth from it during a plague epidemic on the doctor's advice? How long would we have lived in such conditions? Did medieval medicine stand still or was it a source of useful knowledge? Nowadays people are again becoming victims of new, unfamiliar epidemics. The question arises: did the medieval healers have lost recipes that could be useful today? In answering these questions, this book provides a vivid insight into the history of Western European medicine. Open it to any page and you will find curious historical facts and sometimes even secrets of medieval healers. We will get acquainted with their recipes for all occasions - and how to fall in love with yourself, and how to get rid of someone who annoys you. The book is designed for a wide range of readers: those who are interested in or engaged in medicine, and those who try to stay away from doctors.
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