Medicine in the Crusades
Subtitle: warfare, wounds, and the medieval surgeon
By: Piers D. Mitchell.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Medicine, Medieval -- Latin Orient; Surgery, Military -- Latin Orient; Crusades -- History; Wounds and injuries -- Surgery -- History
Description: "This is the first book to be published on any aspect of medicine in the crusades. It will be of interest not only to scholars of crusades specifically, but also to scholars of medieval Europe, the Byzantine world and the Islamic world. Focusing on injuries and their surgical treatment, Piers Mitchell considers medical practitioners, hospitals on battlefields and in towns, torture and mutilation, emergency and planned surgical procedures, bloodletting, analgesia and anaesthesia. He provides an assessment of the exchange of medical knowledge that took place between East and West in the crusades, and of the medical negligence legislation for which the kingdom of Jerusalem was famous. The book presents a radical reassessment of many outdated misconceptions concerning medicine in the crusades and the Frankish states of the Latin East."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-283) and index.