The Compendium of the Jew of Salms is an encyclopaedic work in which the author compiled his knowledge of different fields of medicine in the late 1420s. He enriched the insights that had been adopted by renowned authorities with his own vast experience, meaning that his compendium provides a multifaceted, comprehensive insight into the theory and practice of late medieval medicine.

Lenka Vanková and Václav Bok, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.