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After the Plague: Medieval Medicine's Bold New World — Fexingo History

After the Plague: Medieval Medicine's Bold New World — Fexingo History

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 In the wake of the Black Death, European medicine underwent a quiet revolution. This episode explores how the pandemic's staggering mortality—killing perhaps half of Europe's population—forced physicians to confront the limits of ancient authority. We follow the career of Guy de Chauliac, a papal physician who survived the plague and wrote the era's most influential surgery manual, yet admitted that his training in Galen and Avicenna failed in the face of bubonic pestilence. We examine the rise of dissection in universities, from Mondino de Luzzi's early public dissections in Bologna to the first anatomical theaters. And we meet a controversial figure: the Jewish physician Isaac ben Sheshet Perfet, who brought Arabic medical knowledge into Christian Spain. The episode also touches on plague tracts that began to advocate quarantine and public health measures, long before germ theory, and how the shortage of clergy forced monks to take up medical roles. Finally, we ask: did the Black Death plant the seeds for the scientific revolution?

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