title: The practice of surgery in the fourteenth century.
abstract: Henri de Mondeville details a method of wound healing that emphasizes early debridement and primary closure. In Guy de Chauliac's advice on the treatment of groin hernias, he demonstrates an early if unsophisticated understanding of the principles of high ligation of the sac and repair of the direct defect.
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000601:surgery; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000601:surgery