Popular Veterinary Medicine in the Middle Ages : in French Picardy and Artois

par Didier Boussarie, Docteur vétérinaire, Adel. didier.boussarie@wanadoo.fr

Reminder of the various influences that shaped the veterinary medicine of the Middle Ages and origin of the worship devoted to the saintly livestock healers and protectors in Picardy, Flanders anr Artois during this period. Specific details are provided on Saint Sylvestre, Sainte Saturnine, Saint Elton and Saint Druon.

Bull.soc.fr.hist.méd.sci.vét., 2005, 4 (1)