Posted on 08/07/2005 4:58:33 PM PDT by blam
GGG Ping.
Let's not get carried away in our worship of the elders.
cool!
Very interesting! Thanks for posting this.
I remember reading a description of a medieval hospital: on the upper part of the wall there was an inscription to the effect that to think of the afterlife behooves a good Christian much more than to hope for recovery...
for later
Basically they did what they could which wasn't very much. Medieval life would have been very hard and pretty short.
Well yeah! Anyone who has read a medieval herbal knows that.
The problem was that their quality control wasn't that good and the medicine tended to be a little on the harsh side.
later read....
Anyone know about Hildegarde of Bingen? I have one book with many of her health cures and remedies, and it is quite interesting. I would like to read more about her. For those who don't know of her, she was a nun in (guessing) the 12th century in Germany. She had (according to her and those who knew her) visions and revelations which taught her many things. She was an utterly fascinating personage. She also wrote music, which I would really like to hear.
There are recording of Hildegard's compositions; I've seem them in catalogs. Do some Google!
Interesting, but I don't see anything really novel here. Of course they treated wounds, did amputations, recognized the properties of opium, etc. Without antibiotics, anesthesia, and air conditioning, I'll skip it, thanks!
I should find one or two so I can hear them. I'm just terminally - chronic and acute - lazy and disorganized. And life is way too short to do all the things I want to do.
Boy, is this ever a crappy article. Maybe it's news to the know-nothings at the BBC but it's been well known for centuries that middle-ages medicine was reasonably competent.
Of course, the medieval period stretches from 400AD to 1500AD and naturally, the author doesn't bother to let us know when the Soutra Hospital was in operation or the period they're discussing.
If this is what passes for journalism today, you can keep it.
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
- Kingsley Amis
I wonder what effect such a philosophy had on health insurance premiums.
They are wonderful recordings. It's on my list of things to download from itunes once I get my ipod back.
The height of British monasticism was from about 1000 to about 1450.
Ain't it the truth!
I don't think they had health insurance then; this medical invention [insurance] appears to be much more recent.
And life is way too short to do all the things I want to do.
** Hi LJ this is cyborg. I ask God to give me at least 120 years. Whether He gives it to me is up to Him :-)
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