SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- The subject covered in A Medieval Surgical Pharmacopoeia is the use of medicines by surgeons during the years between 1170 and 1325. This includes treatises written by the eight master surgeons who brought surgery into Europe, with descriptions of the medicines used by their ancients and recent predecessors who had compiled herbals, antidotaries, pharmacopoeias, formularies, etc. All of them contained lists of the simple ingredients and the mixtures called compounds. Many names included the places of origin and cited the authors of the recipes. Nearly every book contained instructions for formulating the compounds.
This book will be of special interest to practitioners of so-called 'alternative' medicine. It gives readers a brief historical review of medieval medicine and look at how much the currently favored 'natural medicines' on the shelves of their purveyors have survived though many centuries. This fascinating compilation of medicinals offers people an inside look to past yet effective treatments as the surgeons themselves describe how they were applied, and how they supply their own formularies.
About the Author
Dr. Rosenman is a retired surgeon and Professor of Surgery in San Francisco, CA. He has provided English translations of seven of the eight seminal treatises written between 1170 and 1330 AD which reintroduced the art into Europe before the epoch of the Great Plague. A translation of a treatise by one of the great surgeons of the 16th C shows how the art of practical surgery came to be dominated by the lay and barber surgeons, while the academics of medicine and surgery were wasting their energies in battles for turf.
A Medieval Surgical Pharmacopoeia by Leonard D. Rosenman M.D.
Publication Date: August 30, 2006
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