"Disputatio medica inauguralis, de merocele vel hernia crurali.....ooh, I wonder who put that in here? It's not even a magical text! Whoever it was, they had an interesting variance of books...." Rowan chuckled, reveling in the joy of being in such close proximity to so many ancient tomes. She peered over the small print, shaking her head. The author had gone on to become a very respected surgeon and was known to have been far ahead of his times, advocating for sterile hospitals, sterile equipment, proper nutrition for the poor and performed a sucessful Caesarean section in which the mother and child survived after having only read about the procedure in a book.
{The title is: An inaugural medical dissertation concerning merocele or femoral hernia and is an actual thesis paper that was written by a student at the University of Edinburgh in 1812. I have the entire transcript in Latin and English. Yes, I am a nerd.}
