Textual healing : essays on medieval and early modern medicine / edited by Elizabeth Lane Furdell.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

xvii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Reading medieval medical texts with an open mind / Anne Van Arsdall -- Ordering human growth in Tibetan medical and religious embryologies / Frances Garrett -- Galen refashioned : Gariopontus in the later middle ages and renaissance / Florence Eliza Glaze -- Paracelsus's Great wound surgery / Lilla Vekerdy -- Wondrous experience as text : Valleriola and the Observationes medicinales / Brian Nance -- "Profitable unto the vulgar" : the case and cases of John Cotta's Short discourse / Todd H.J. Pettigrew -- Re-anatomizing melancholy : Burton and the logic of humoralism / Kaara L. Peterson -- Vegetal prejudice and healing territories in early modern England / Rachel Poliquin -- Donne and the noble art / Jocelyn Emerson -- Pox Britannica : the French disease in the age of Rochester / Ann A. Huse -- Willis and Sydenham on diabetes : discovery and debate in early modern English medicine / Elizabeth Lane Furdell -- Merton revised : English independency and medical conservatism in the seventeenth century / William Birken.

Includes bibliographical references and index.