Medicine: examining urine
The medieval Church
Medieval Surgery
Rural life: the lazy ploughman
Friar playing music
Dante's Divine Comedy
Harvesting acorns
Living and dead Princes
Golden Haggadah
Noah in the Holkham Bible
Apothecary shop
City walls
Lord at supper
Peasants work the land
The Last Judgement
Hundred Years War
Demons fall into Hell
Chronicle of the Black Death
Genesis picture book
Medieval encyclopedia
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
Peasants' Revolt
Scottish freedom
English cookery manuscript
This illustrated medieval manuscript shows a surgical procedure for fixing a broken skull. This is accompanied by a text describing Christ's life. The contrast between these two subjects (medical and religious) may hint at the fact that both surgeon and patient would have prayed for help from God! Although it is impossible to know how many of these kinds of operations were successful, the discovery of medieval skulls that have been knitted together after the treatment of an injury, suggests that not all patients with traumatic head wounds would have died.
Shelfmark: Sloane 1977 f.2