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University of Wisconsin Press, Date: 1991. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Ink writing to 20 pages. Near fine book and jacket. . 1991. University of Wisconsin Press ISBN 0299129306 9780299129309 [US]

Madison, Wisconsin The University of Wisconsin Press 1991 Hardcover As New 378p. A hardcover book and dustjacket in fine condition. No chips or tears to jacket; text is clean and binding is tight. Appears unread.

ISBN10: 0299129306, ISBN13: 9780299129309, [publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin] Hardcover 378p. A hardcover book and dustjacket in fine condition. No chips or tears to jacket; text is clean and binding is tight. Appears unread.
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Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, Date: 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Series; Wisconsin publications in the history of science and medicine ; no. 8. Physical description; lxxiii, 378 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm. Notes; Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Toronto), 1981. Summary; When knowledge of Arabic and Greek medical texts began to penetrate 13th-century European universities, academic medicine suddenly had to master a new literature and terminology, a new pathology, and a new therapeutics. Sometime before 1250, Gilbertus Anglicus (Gilbert the Englishman) produced the ""Compendium of Medicine"", a primary text of this medical revolution. In the early 15th century, Gilbert's work was translated into Middle English from Latin. Faye Getz first identified this important vernacular manuscript at the Wellcome Institute in London. This edition presents the entire text for the first time, with an extensive introduction to the learned, practical, and social components in medieval medicine and to the text's historical and textual settings. The Middle English text consists mainly of medicinal recipes, with guides to diagnosis, medicinal preparation, and prognosis. Recipes are grouped according to the diseases for which they were ...