History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages, Vol. 14 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from History of the German People at the Close of the Middle Ages, Vol. 14 Obstacles to the study of anatomy - Prejudices of the people - Prosperity and decline of the medical faculty at Basle, 41-42. Vesalius on the condition of practical medicine - Decline of surgery - No organised clinical instruction at the German universities - The medical faculties step-children of the universities of the time - Attendance at foreign universities, 42-46. Surgery in the hands of barbers and shavers seldom rose above the level of handwork - Reports of contemporaries on the melancholy condition of surgery - unconscientiousness of the surgeons, 46-48. Malpractice with materia medica - Defective official supervision of apothecaries - Proceedings of the Jew doctors, 48-52. Professors of the healing art figure as comic characters in the carnival plays - What a learned physician of the day boasts of accomplishing, 52-55. Judgment on the period of Church schism in the form of infectious plagues and diseases, 56. Leprosy and syphilis - Ravages of syphilis and precautions against it - Golden time for charlatans and alchemists, 56-60. The 'English sweat' - Ravages of this complaint - Caspar Kegeler's book of medicine, 61-63. Terror of the plague - Flight from it - Helplessness of the doctors, 63-64. The epidemic of 1541 - Appalling mortality from the plague epidemics - Ravages of the bubonic plague in 1562 ff. - The so-called Hungarian disease, 64-70. The year of famine and death, 1571, 70-72. Universality of the plague epidemics in 1574-1577 - Ingratitude of the sick to the doctors - verses of Guarinoni - Spread of the plague by infected stuffs, 72. Prophecies of the calendar-makers concerning the eighties of the sixteenth century - Influenza epidemics - Ravages of the pestilence. 1581-1582, 72-74. Appearance of the disease raphania, 1581 - Ravages of this plague in Nuremberg and Basle, 1582-1583 - Victims to it in the Grisons, 1585 and 1586, 74-78. The great mortality year, 1585, at Breslau - Comparison of the plague of the sixteenth century with the cholera - Caspar Schwenkfeld on raphania.78-79. Calamities of the last years of the sixteenth century - Pestilence, famine, storms, cold and dearth of water - The raphania electuary of the Marburg medical faculty - Diminution of the population of Germany. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.