Thirteenth-century hospital interior
Thirteenth-Century Hospital Interior (Tonerre) From “The Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries,” by J. J. Walsh This was built by the sister of Louis IX of France, Marguerite of Bourgogne, who retired to it herself to spend her life caring for the ailing poor.
Surgical instruments of the Arabs
Surgical instruments of the Arabs, according to Abulcasim After plates in Gurlt’s “Geschichte der Chirurgie” 1. A pincher for extracting foreign bodies from the ear 2. An ear syringe for injections 3. A tongue depressor 4. Concave scissors for the removal of tonsils 5. Curved pinchers for foreign bodies in the throat 6 to 29. Instruments for the treatment of the teeth 19 and 20. Forceps 21 to 25. Levers and hooks for the removal of roots 26. Strong pinchers for the same 27. A tooth saw 28 and 29. Files for the teeth
Medieval Surgical instruments
Surgical instruments of Guy de Chauliac, nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 (fourteenth century); and surgical apparatus of Hans von Gerssdorff, nos. 5, 6 and 7 (fifteenth century) After plates in Gurlt’s “Geschichte der Chirurgie” 1. Trepan 2. Balista used for extraction of arrows 3. Cauterizing shears with cannula for cauterization of the uvula 4. Bistoury 5. Extension arrangement for reducing upper arm dislocations, called “The Fool” 6. Screwpiece for extending a knee contracture 7. Extension apparatus in the form of armour-arm and armour-leg plates (“harness instruments”) for contractures of the elbow and knee joints
Amputation below the knee
This is the first picture of an amputation known From Gerssdorff’s woodcut, reproduced in Gurlt’s “Geschichte der Chirurgie”
Brunschwig’s surgical armamentarium
From Gurlt’s “Geschichte der Chirurgie” Hans von Gerssdorff and Hieronymus Brunschwig, who flourished in the latter half of the fifteenth century in Germany, have both left early printed treatises on Surgery which give excellent woodcuts showing pictures of instruments, operations, and costumes, at the end of the medieval period.
‘... thrust him out of the church’
‘Dymoke of Scrivelsby’
‘Hakeney’
... thrust a leaden bodkin into the head of that image
The unfortunate “fowle” was “hurten so sore”’
Robert Berewold in the pillory
‘... showed him his injuries’
‘... fully armed with swords and bucklers’
‘... ducking him in a horse-pond’
‘... constructed a pantomime dragon on the pattern of the real article’
Pilgrims
‘The broken bough fell on the head of a man standing down below’
‘... failed to identify the geese’
... sware ‘gret othes’ and took himself by the hair
‘When a lion looks at you it becomes a leopard’
'... crossed to England’'
‘... gyrd abowte his bodye in iij places with towells and gyrdylls’
‘The young Edward III.’
sat for its portrait to Matthew Paris
‘... led through the middle of the city’
‘... called secretly at the chamber dore’
‘The tiger and the mirror’
‘... playing innumerable pranks’
‘... compellyd them for to devour the same writte’
‘... cast her into a cauldron’
A ‘herauld’
‘An impromptu entertainment by three minstrels’
‘... got his arms round a branch’
A young novice of the priory
‘He incontinently fled’
‘... with drawn swords stood in the doorway’
‘Henry’s badge’
‘St. Piran’
‘A wonderful sight’
‘latten “Agnus Dei”’
... caused to sytte down and in large wyse to gape
‘Diabolus ligatus’