“Nicholas Neesbett was an experienced healer in fifteenth-century England…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Melissa Reynolds.

For further reading:
Melissa Reynolds. “The Sururgia of Nicholas Neesbett: Writing Medical Authority in Later Medieval England.” Social History of Medicine 34 (2021)

How To: Reading Medicine and Science in England, 1400–1600 by Melissa Reynolds (forthcoming)

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/