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2014
This chapter explores the relationship between Byzantine medical science and leprosy. It discusses the works of the most prominent Byzantine physicians, such as Theophanes Chrysobalantes and John Zacharias. Greek medical ideas about leprosy influenced Christian leaders in constructing leprosariums and in organizing therapeutic routines for patients in ...
Timothy S. Miller, John W. Nesbitt
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This chapter explores the relationship between Byzantine medical science and leprosy. It discusses the works of the most prominent Byzantine physicians, such as Theophanes Chrysobalantes and John Zacharias. Greek medical ideas about leprosy influenced Christian leaders in constructing leprosariums and in organizing therapeutic routines for patients in ...
Timothy S. Miller, John W. Nesbitt
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Innovation in Byzantine Medicine
2020Byzantine medicine is still a little-known and misrepresented field not only in the wider arena of debates on medieval medicine but also among Byzantinists. Byzantine medical literature is often viewed as ‘stagnant’ and mainly preserving ancient ideas; and our knowledge of it continues to be based to a great extent on the comments of earlier ...
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Symposium on Byzantine Medicine
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1986TheSymposium on Byzantine Medicineis made up of 21 papers that were originally delivered in 1983 at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC. Unlike many scholarly compilations, which incorporate a variety of studies to elaborate on a general theme, this assemblage of articles can be read with a decided sense of continuity ...
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A Byzantine Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine
2007Abstract How were Greek texts on the care and medical treatment of the horse transmitted from antiquity to the present day? Using the evidence of Byzantine manuscripts of the veterinary compilation known as the Hippiatrica, Anne McCabe traces the journey of the texts from the stables to the medieval scriptorium and ultimately to the ...
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[The image of Byzantine medicine in the satire "Timarion"].
Gesnerus, 1991Byzantine medicine is usually regarded as a static and non-creative descendant of classical Greek medicine, a point of view confirmed by the Byzantine medical texts. In this essay, the anonymous satire "Timarion" is analyzed in respect to its image of contemporary medical theory.
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American Journal of Nephrology, 1997
Both the Old Testament and the Talmud contain a great deal of information on medicine, nephrology, health and disease. The basic premise of early Jewish medicine is based on the notion that disease is due to structural changes in internal organs. This is in contrast to the mythical dogma of humoralism as the basis of health and disease espoused by ...
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Both the Old Testament and the Talmud contain a great deal of information on medicine, nephrology, health and disease. The basic premise of early Jewish medicine is based on the notion that disease is due to structural changes in internal organs. This is in contrast to the mythical dogma of humoralism as the basis of health and disease espoused by ...
S G, Massry +3 more
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[Oriental elements in Byzantine medicine].
Medicina nei secoli, 1995Late Byzantine medicine contains numerous oriental elements which were assimilated in two ways: first via translations of important treatises written by eminent physicians, but above all in the form of new medical remedies proposed mainly by Symeon Seth, Nicolaus Myrepsos, Constantinus Meliteniotes, Isaac Taxiotes. As Byzantine - Eastern Roman medicine
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