Henry Handerson, a Cleveland physician and medical historian, examines what is known of Gilbertus Anglicus, author of the medieval Compendium Medicinae. He sets out the learning of the period, from humours and urine colours to fevers and treatment, as a doctor of the 1910s read it, in a study published by the Cleveland Medical Library.
A compact introduction to medieval medicine for historians of science and the curious general reader. Download the free EPUB.