Concerning Seizure and Possession (Part 2): Medieval Methods

We complete our look at epilepsy in the Middle Ages by considering how religion and medicine intersect in surviving medical texts and how classical learning was reintroduced by looking at the example of John of Gaddesden, possibly the model for Chaucer's Doctour of Phisik.

Today's Texts:

John of Gaddesden. "John of Gaddesden on Epilepsy." Edited by William G. Lennox, translated by Adrian P. English, Annals of Medical History, vol. 1, no. 3, May 1939, pp. 283-307. Semantic Scholar.

Origen. Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, translated by John Patrick, in Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 9, edited by Allan Menzies, Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1896. New Advent, revised and edited by Kevin Knight, www.newadvent.org/fathers/1016.htm

Herbarium. In Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, translated by Thomas Cockayne, vol. 1, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864, pp. 1-325. Archive.org.

Leech Book. Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, translated by Thomas Cockayne, vol. 2, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864. Archive.org.

"Life of St. Winefred." Lives of the Cambro British Saints, of the Fifth and Immediate Succeeding Centuries, from Ancient Welsh & Latin MSS. in the British Museum and Elsewhere, with English Translations, an Explanatory Notes, edited and translated by W. J. Rees, Welsh MSS. Society, 1853, pp. 515-529. Google Books.

Chapters
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:34 Text: Gospel of Mark (NIV), Ch. 9:14-29
00:04:36 Commentary
00:10:12 Text: Origen, Commentary on Matthew
00:11:44 Commentary
00:13:58 Flashback to Life and Miracles of St. Winefred
00:14:41 Commentary
00:18:33 Text: Bald's Leechbook
00:19:44 Commentary
00:22:17 Text: Anglo-Saxon Herbarium, "On Asterion"
00:23:11 Commentary
00:24:03 Text: Anglo-Saxon Herbarium, "On Artemisia"
00:25:05 Commentary
00:34:28 Text: John of Gaddesden, Rosa Medicinae
00:56:59 Commentary
01:00:42 PSA: Seizure First Aid
01:04:03 Riddle
01:04:39 Outro