Medieval Medicine
Primary Sources

Agnellus of Ravenna.  1981.  Lectures on Galen’s De Sectis.  Ed. and trans.  Classics Seminar 609, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo.

Albert the Great.  1987.  Man and the Beasts.  Trans. James J. Scanlon.  Binghamton.  (Includes short sections on human reproduction from Albertus Magnus’ De animalibus.)Albucasis.  1973.  On Surgery and Instruments.  Trans. M. S. Spink and G. L. Lewis.  London.

Arnaldi de Villanova Opera medica Omnia, Ed. Michael R. McVaugh. (Granada: Seminarium Historiae medicae Granatensis, 19, 1900).

Avicenna.  1966.  The General Principles of Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine.  Trans.  Mazhar H. Shah. Karachi.  (Bk. 1, with summary of bks. 2-5.)

---------.  1930.  Canon, bk. 1. In R. Cameron Gruner.  A Treatise on the Canon of Medicine Incorporating a Translation of the First Book.  London.

Berengario da Carpi, 1990.  On Fracture of the Skull or Cranium.  Trans. L. R. Lind.  Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.  Vol. 80, pt. 4. Philadelphia.

Brain, Peter.  1986.  Galen on Bloodletting.  Cambridge.  (Study including translated texts.)

Corner, George W.  1927.  Anotomical Texts of the Earlier Middle Ages. Washington, D. C.  (Includes the Salernitan manuals on anatomy.)

Ficino, Marsilio.  1989.  Three Books on Life.  Ed. and trans. Carol V. Kaske and John R. Clark, Binghamton.  (Books 1 and 2 are on regimen in health; Book 3 is chiefly on astral magic.)

Galen.  1979.  On the Natural Faculties.  Trans. A. W. Brock, Loeb Classical Library.  Cambridge and London.  (Originally issued 1916.)
---------.  1985.  Three Treatises on the Nature of Science.  On the Sects for Beginners.  An Outline of Empiricism.  On Medical Experience.  Trans. R. Walzer and M. Frede. Indianapolis.
--------.  1968.  On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body.  Trans. Margaret T. May. 2 vols.  Ithaca.

Grant, Edward, ed.  1974.  A Source Book in Medieval Science.  Pp. 700-807.  Cambridge, Mass.  (Includes Isagoge of Johannitius, the Canon of Avicenna, the Anatomy of Mondino dé Liuzzi, the gynecological treatise attributed to Trotula, and the Surgery of Henri de Mondeville, as well as samples of commentaries, consilia, works on diagnosis by pulse and urine, pharmacology, and other surgical treatises.)

Guy de Chauliac.  1971.  The Cyrurgie of Guy de Chauliac.  Ed.  Margaret S. Ogden, Early English Text Society no. 265.  Oxford.  (Text in Middle English.)

Hippoccrates, 6 vols., 1972-88.  Tras. W.H.S. Jones et al. Loeb Classical Library.  Cambridge and London.  (Vols. 1 and 2 originally issued 1923; vol. 3, 1928; vol. 4, 1931).

[Johannes de Ketham].  1925.  The fasciculo di Medicina, Venice 1495.  Ed. Charles Singer.  2 vols.  Florence.  (A facsimile of an early printed collection of medical treatises in Italian, accompanied by modern scholarly apparatus.  Includes an English traslation of the Anatomy of Mondino dé Luzzi, or Liuzzi, 2:59-99.)

John of Arderne.  1910.  Treatises of Fistula in Ano, Haemorrhoids, and Clysters by John Arderne from an Early Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Traslation.  Ed.  D’Arcy Power.  Early English Text Society no. 139.  Oxford.  (Reprinted 1968.)

Leonard of Bertapaglia, 1989.  On Nerve Injuries and Skull Fractures.  Trans. Jules C. Ladenheim.  Mount Kisco, New York.

Lind, R. L.  1975.  Studies in Pre-Vesalian Anatomy:  Biography, Translations, Documents.  Philadelphia.  (Includes the text of anatomical treatises by Alessandro Benedetti [1497], Niccolo Massa [1559], Andreas de Laguna [1535], Johannes Dryander [1535] and a commentary on the Anatomy of Mundinus [Mondino] by Berengario da Carpi [1521].)

Lloyd, G. E. R., ed.  1978.  Hippocratic Writings.  Harmondsworth.

Macer Floridus, De virtutibus herbarum noviter inventus ac impressus, (Venetiis: Impressus per Bernardinum Venetum de Vitalibus, 1506).

Maimonides, 1984.  Medical Writings.  Trans.  Fred Rosner, M.D. Haifa.

Rowland, Beryl, ed. and trans.  1981.  Medieval Woman’s Guide to Health.  Kent, Ohio.  (A gynocological treatise.)

Saffron, Morris H., ed. and trans.  1972.  Maurus of Salerno Twelfth Century “Optimus Physicus” with His Commentary on the Prognostics of Hippocrates.  Trasactions of the American Philosophical Society.  Vol. 62, pt. 1. Philadelphia.

Sharpe, William D., ed. and trans. 1964.  Isidore of Seville:  The Medical Writings.  Trasactions of the American Philosophical Society.  Vol. 54, pt. 2. Philadelphia.

Teodorico Borgognoni (Theodoric of Lucca).  1955-60.  The Surgery of Theordoric.  Trans. Eldridge Campbell and James Colton.  2 vols.  New York.

Voigts, Linda El, and Michael R. McVaugh, eds.  1984.   A Latin Technical Phlebotomy and Its Middle English Translation.  Trasactions of the American Philosophical Society.  Vol. 74, pt. 2. Philadelphia.

Wallner, Bjõrn, ed.  1969.  The Middle English Translation of Guy de Chauliac’s Treatise on Fractures and Dislocations.  Book 5 of the Great Surgery.  Lund.  (Other sections of Guy de Chauliac’s work have also been translated by Wallner in the same series.)