Health, Disease and Healing in Medieval Culture

The disease which we call cancer, Pauline Thompson; the anglo-saxon view of the causes of illness, Audrey Meaney; "A drynke that men callen dwale to make a man to slepe whyle men kerven hem" - a surgical anesthetic from late medieval England, Linda.E.Voigts, Robert P.Hudson; the third instrument of medicine - some accounts of surgery in medieval Iceland, Ian McDougall; mythic mediation in healing incantations, Edina Bozoky; anointing the sick and the dying in Christian antiquity and the early medieval west, Frederick Paxton; the healing power of the Hebrew tongue - an example from late 13th century England, Mark Zier; changes in the "Regimina Sanitatis" - the role of the Jewish physicians, Luis Garcia-Ballester; the sickdish in early French recipe collections, Terence Scully; to prolong life and promote health - baconian alchemy and pharmacy in the English learned tradition, Faye Marie Getz; the visions of Sts. Antony and Guthlac, M.L.Cameron; three not-so-miraculous miracles, John Wortley; great figures in Arabic medicine, accoring to Ibn Al-Qifti, Francoise Micheau; the introduction of Arabic medicine into the west - the question of etiology, Danielle Jacquart.