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Nicaise, in the introduction to his edition of Guy de Chauliac's "Grande Chirurgie," reviews briefly the history of women in medicine, and concludes: "Women continued to practise medicine in Italy for centuries, and the names of some who attained great renown have been preserved for us. Their works are still quoted from in the fifteenth century.
The famous surgeons of London, the Société de Chirurgie of Paris, and the most celebrated practitioners of the United States have given him their hearty recommendations. So lately as last August, that shrewd and skilful surgeon, Dr.
A detailed review of this would take us too far afield, but at least something may be said of two or three of the great representative surgical writers who touched on this specialty. About the middle of the fourteenth century that prince of surgeons, and model of surgical writers, Guy de Chauliac, wrote his great text-book of surgery, "Le Grande Chirurgie."
That monarch preferred it to every science; he was fond of conversing on it, and took such an interest in it, that, in order to promote its improvement, he built this handsome edifice for the ci-devant Academie et Ecoles de Chirurgie. The architect was GONDOUIN. The facade, extending nearly two hundred feet, presents a peristyle of the Ionic order.
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