Before the Middle Ages -- Sickness and disease -- Physicians, surgeons, and healers -- Four humors -- Having surgery -- Going to the dentist -- Medical textbooks -- Monasteries and hospitals -- Women in medieval medicine -- Use of herbal medicines -- Healing pilgrimage -- Black death -- Towards the 16th century -- Timeline -- Glossary and further information -- Index.
Summary
Explores how illness and disease was treated in medieval time and peoples' attitudes toward health. Health and Medicine explores people's attitudes toward health and how they treated illness and disease in medieval times. It describes what it was like to have surgery or to go to the dentist, and the role that women played in medicine. It also looks at the different medical theories and developments of the period.