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Henri de Mondeville
(1260 - 1320)
French physician and surgeon whose manuscript Cyrurgia (1312) was the first extensive reference book for surgery in France (a predecessor of Guy de Chauliac's Chirurgia Magna) in which he introduced the recommendation that wounds beed and sutured. His skill as an army surgeon led to appointment as surgeon to the French King, Philip Le Bel.
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Science Quotes by Henri de Mondeville (2 quotes)
Let the surgeon take care to regulate the whole regimen of the patient's life for joy and happiness by promising that he will soon be well, by allowing his relatives and special friends to cheer him and by having someone tell him jokes, and let him be solaced also by music on the viol or psaltery. The surgeon must forbid anger, hatred, and sadness in the patient, and remind him that the body grows fat from joy and thin from sadness.
— Henri de Mondeville
In James Joseph Walsh, Old-Time Makers of Medicine (1911), 270.
Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies.
Reasserting the statement by Avicenna.
Reasserting the statement by Avicenna.
— Henri de Mondeville
In James Joseph Walsh, Old-Time Makers of Medicine (1911), 270.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
