VII.—On a Filtering Cistern of the Fourteenth Century at Westminster Abbey

Mortality in fourteenth-century Exeter.

For many years, pioneer work has begun to uncover the history of mortality in England during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, before the Black Death. Nearly a hundred years ago, Creighton collected chronicle references to outbreaks of disease and mortality in his History ofepidemics in England.' In 1948 and 1966, J. C. Russell analysed the inquisitions post mortem to reveal patter...

Doctor versus patient: two fourteenth-century lawsuits.

Tim medieval medical practitioner, like his fellows in every age, was vulnerable to accusations of negligence. The least fortunate, or perhaps the most negligent, might find themselves liable to public prosecution," despite some recognition that treatment was hazardous anyway.2 More commonly, the doctor might face a private lawsuit by a dissatisfied patient; a cursory glance through Talbot and ...

Critique of Poetry/ The Discourse of Chaos in The Realm of The Unhearing: A Criticism of Fourteenth Hijri-Century Earache based on a Postmodern Reading, Mahshad Shahbazi

Fourteenth-century England, medical ethics, and the plague.

In the 20th and 21st centuries, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and the threat of bioterror attacks have raised questions about the role of the physician in response to epidemics. Modern medical ethics, with its precepts of beneficence, nonmaleficence, and respect for patient autonomy, focuses almost exclusively on the relationship between the docto...

Transmission of Epidemic Diseases through the Persian Gulf In the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Century AH

In the late 13th and early 14th centuries, Iran was involved with epidemics such as plague and cholera, affecting the population and economy of the country. The spread of these diseases, on the one hand, was the result of the government's inability to organize health centers and, on the other hand, the inability to prevent these diseases by the quarantine of the borders. The southern borders of...