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3 unusual facts about Henri de Mondeville


Henri de Mondeville

This is the first medieval treatise on surgery but was eclipsed by the more famous Guy de Chauliac's Chirurgia magna.

Henri de Mondeville (c. 1260 – 1316), a medieval Frenchmen, has been claimed as the "Father of French Surgery".

Thomas Geminus

He had employed Nicholas Udall, the playwright, to translate some of the work, while the text was taken from an early translation of Henri de Mondeville's "Surgery".



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