By Tony Hunt
Tony Hunt offers, for the 1st time, the whole set of illustrations which accompany a 13th-century Anglo-Norman translation of Roger of Parma's surgical procedure (c.1180), the 1st unique treatise on surgical procedure to be written within the medieval West. His observation relates the drawings accurately to the sections of textual content they illustrate, supplying actual identity of different clinical remedies depicted, fusing cautious translation from the Latin textual content with glossy scientific belief. those special drawings, nearly with out parallel in 13th-century England, express a consummate clinical illustrator at paintings and display loads of details at the medieval pharmacy and the variety of healing remedies practised.
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Jugular) vein has been punctured. The hole in the vein must be promptly sewn up with a needle and thread, whilst on the other side of the injured vessel a ligature must be made. After this the wound is to be dressed with the ordinary dressing of egg-albumen. There is no colour. The illustration closely resembles fig. 41, which is a repetition caused by the displacement of the rest of II,3 to f. 266r-v. As so often the artist has ensured striking parallelism in the leg movements of doctor and patient.
R. James thought that he was producing money from a bag, but it seems more likely that he is proffering magdalions which are mentioned in the preceding receipt for 'ointment of the Apostles' [I,4] and explained as 'une ronde confection' or cylindrical medicament which spicers call 'macdalions' and which are used for Image not available. Page 11 anointing bone and placing on the wound after suturing. This double illustration includes two surgical instruments and raises the interesting question of technical terminology in the original Latin and the vernacular translation.
No. 5 above)and loose bone thrown away. In fact the scraper is not illustrated here and this is probably because the Anglo-Norman translator botched the identification by writing 'un ostil cirugien que est apelé rubigo' ('a surgical instrument called a rubigo') which the artist not unnaturally found incomprehensible (rubigo means rust or blight), thus substituting another part of the operation, removal of a fragment of bone. This seems to offer a clear indication that the artist was following the Anglo-Norman text and not the Latin original.