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A medieval guide to practical magic

With few sources of effective help available when treating an injured patient, the medieval physician could instead stage a healing ceremony using a practical how-to guide he carried with him.

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  • Thesaurus pauperum. Qui in comincia illibro chiamato Thesoro de poueri / compilato et facto per maestro Piero Spano.
  • Thesaurus pauperum. Qui in comincia illibro chiamato Thesoro de poueri / compilato et facto per maestro Piero Spano.
  • An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
  • Pharmacopoeia extemporanea: sive praescriptorum chilias. In qua remediorum elegantium, & efficacium paradigmata, ad omnes ferè medendi intentiones accommodata, candide proponuntur. Una cum viribus, operandi ratione, dosibus & incidibus annexis / Per Thomam Fuller, M.D.
  • An unsympathetic doctor giving a patient a prescription, telling her it doesn't matter whether she takes it or not. Reproduction of a drawing by G.L. Stampa, 1931.
  • An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
  • An apothecary using a pestle and mortar to make up a prescription. Coloured etching.
  • A sick man mixing a dose of medicine for himself from a book. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, 1824, after M.W. Sharp.
  • A patient completely misunderstanding a doctor. Wood engraving by B. Partridge, 1898.
  • A doctor informs his patient's mother-in-law that he may need to resort to tapping - she misunderstands him as meaning tapping alcohol. Wood engraving by C. Keene, 1880.
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