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143:, (Surgery), is Borgognoni's major contribution to western medicine. Written in the mid 13th Century, it is a four volume work that covers the major fields of medieval surgery. On the treatment of wounds he wrote: "For it is not necessary that bloody matter (pus) be generated in wounds -- for there can be no error greater than this, and nothing else which impedes nature so much, and prolongs the sickness." This went against a longstanding weight of medical thinking. Although often disagreeing with
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and from Arabic medicine be replaced by a more antiseptic approach, with the wound being cleaned and then sutured to promote healing. Bandages were to be pre-soaked in wine as a form of disinfectant. He also promoted the use of anesthetics in surgery. A sponge soaked in a dissolved solution of opium,
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1996 - Page 439 "... that it was written in 1267.511 Teodorico himself refers (see below) to Filia principis ("The
Daughter of the Prince") as a book of surgery of which he was the author.512 Possibly the son of Ugo Borgognoni and certainly his disciple, Teodorico
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Chirurgia of Teodorico Borgognoni, the text that provides the most appropriate introduction to surgical practice in the Crown of Aragon. The Chirurgia starts by
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2012 - Page 156 "reference to the Greco-Arabic surgical texts, the procedures used by their contemporaries and their own practice: Teodorico
Borgognoni (ca. 1205–1298), who started writing handbooks on surgery in the 1240s, and Bruno Longoburgo, who
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Borgognoni of Lucca dedicated his surgery to the bishop of Valencia in the 1260s; it was translated twice into Catalan, and was probably the most widely disseminated surgical text in the Crown of Aragon.56 Teodorico has no
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Italian surgeon who anticipated Henri de Mondeville, Paracelsus, and Lord Joseph Lister in suggesting that cleanliness was of major importance in wound
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Borgognoni practiced surgery in addition to his episcopal and religious duties. Despite this, he became the favoured practitioner of many leading personages, including the pope. His major medical work is the
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