[The first mention of physicians in Würzburg. An unknown indication to Ortolf of Baierland].
The oldest account book ever found for the Bavarian monastery of Aldersbach records the existence of physicians in the Episcopal city of Würzburg in 1291-2. The anonymous Cistercian monk who recorded this account wrote in detail about a few academic physicians, phisici. But there are also some rather interesting occurrences recorded in the book. The abbot of Aldersbach at the time, Henry, suffered from a rather severe illness, and the book allows us to follow the path of this illness to some medical authorities at the end of the 13th century. He met physicians in Würzburg and Paris, which was the centre of the medical field in Central Europe at the time. Ultimately no-one was able to help Henry, and in his last try to get medical help he looked to the highest of all physicians in the medieval thinking; Christ himself. He made a pilgrimage to the lacrimae Christi, a relic probably presented in Regensburg, but died on the 26th of September 1295.
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