History of Medicine by Jacalyn Duffin;

Author:Jacalyn Duffin;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Atlantic Provinces – Antiquities, Atlantic Coast (Canada) – Antiquities, Québec (Province) – Antiquities, Maine – Antiquities, Atlantic Provinces – History, Atlantic Coast (Canada) – History, North Atlantic Region – History, Québec (Province) – History, Maine – History
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Medieval Surgery

During the Christian-dominated Middle Ages in Europe, disease was seen as divine punishment; care was welcomed, but efforts to cure might be tantamount to hubris. Healing was an act of God or one of his holy agents. The patron saints of medicine, pharmacy, and surgery were the twin healers Cosmas and Damian, who supposedly had been martyred early in the fourth century A.D. (see figure 10.1). During their lives and after, they were reported to have effected miraculous cures, including the transplantation of a gangrenous limb with a donor leg from the cadaver of a Black man. Medical schools, hospices, and fraternities, including a Paris college of surgery, were named for these saints.

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