This collection of twelve essays explores various aspects in the development of medicine from the Middle Ages to 1700 with a particular emphasis on revisiting original texts for new insights in the culture of healing.

Elizabeth Lane Furdell, Ph.D. (1973) in History, Kent State University, is Professor of History at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, FL. Her recent books include "The Royal Doctors" (2001) and "Publishing and Medicine in Early Modern England" (2002), both University of Rochester Press, and a biography of James Welwood (Combined Books, 1998).