Can't help on the bib, but do want to suggest the Merck Manual as a
supplementary aid. It's a physicians desk manual that gives symptoms of
virutally all known diseases. When diseases are described before the 19th
century, it's often difficult to tell what they are. People die of "fevers,"
etc. Sometimes if a few symptoms are named, you can match this against the
Merck Manual and see what this disease would be called today.
Also, you might get some help from Ciba, a wonderful journal for physicians
that was put out be Ciba Geigy. It had an art and lit orientation, with
articles about which of the dwarfs in Velasquez' paintings were dwarfs
because they had thyroid problems, and which were dwarfs because they had
pituitary problems. Whether Egyptian pharoahs had arthritis (examination of
mummies), etc. It would at least give you the names of some top-notch
writers on the history of medicine, and I think there were bibliographies.
Ciba Geigy must have this material archived if you can't find it in
libraries. We have a national library of medical history in the United
States, and I'm sure there are similar libraries in Europe that would be more
likely to go back to the middle ages.
pat sloane
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