<scp>G</scp>uy de <scp>C</scp>hauliac: pre‐eminent surgeon of the <scp>M</scp>iddle <scp>A</scp>ges
Journal: ANZ Journal of Surgery
Year: 2013

Guy de Chauliac (c1300-1368) trained in Toulouse and the University of Montpellier from where he achieved the highest possible degree of Master of medicine. He undertook fellowships in Bologna (anatomical dissection) and Paris (surgery) and was qualified as a physician not a Barber Surgeon. He took Holy Orders and was appointed as physician to three Avignon-based Popes. He survived an epidemic of the Black Death (1348-1350), suffering an axillary bubo. His book Chirugia Magna was written in medi