Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- II.31 King Edward I, Letter to Pope Boniface VIII on Relations between England and Scotland
- II.32 The Trial of Alice Kyteler on a Charge of Witchcraft
- II.33 John of Gaddesden, an Operation to Remove a Cataract, from Rosa Anglica
- II.34 Historians of the Fourteenth Century
- II.35 Wills of Lay Men and Women
- Fifteenth Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
II.33 - John of Gaddesden, an Operation to Remove a Cataract, from Rosa Anglica
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- II.31 King Edward I, Letter to Pope Boniface VIII on Relations between England and Scotland
- II.32 The Trial of Alice Kyteler on a Charge of Witchcraft
- II.33 John of Gaddesden, an Operation to Remove a Cataract, from Rosa Anglica
- II.34 Historians of the Fourteenth Century
- II.35 Wills of Lay Men and Women
- Fifteenth Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
John of Gaddesden’s massive compendium of medicine, describing medical problems and possible remedies, demonstrates the state of medical knowledge in England in the early fourteenth century. Its predecessor was the Compendium Medicinae by Gilbertus Anglicus around the middle of the thirteenth century. There has been no new edition of either work since the early sixteenth century. Here Gaddesden’s account of a surgical procedure to remove a cataract from the eye is given.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 304 - 308Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024