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Medieval medicine attributed illnesses, and disease, not to sinful behavior, but to natural causes, and sin was connected to illness only in a more general sense of the view that disease manifested in humanity as a result of its fallen state from God.
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Medieval medicine may refer to: Medieval medicine of Western Europe, pseudoscientific ideas from antiquity during the Middle Ages; Byzantine medicine, common medical practices of the Byzantine Empire from about 400 AD to 1453 AD; Medicine in the medieval Islamic world, the science of medicine developed in the Middle East; Development of ...
Gilbertus Anglicus (or Gilbert of England, also known as Gilbertinus; c. 1180 – c. 1250) [1] was a medieval English physician. [1] [2] [3] He is known chiefly for his encyclopedic work, the Compendium of Medicine (Compendium Medicinæ), most probably written between 1230 and 1250. [2]
Within each entry of a remedy, a few qualities and uses are explained. The optimal state of the plant for medicinal use is described, such as the quality of the plant leaves. The entries include not only the benefits from the item, but also the potential dangers from using the remedy, similar to a list of side effects from modern medicine.
Medicine in the medieval Islamic world (4 C, 9 P) Medieval pharmacologists (2 C) Medieval physicians (31 C, 1 P) S. Schola Medica Salernitana (12 P)
He developed key technologies including the equatorium and universal latitude-independent astrolabe. Avempace (died 1138), a famous physicist from Al-Andalus who had an important influence on later physicists such as Galileo. [7] He was the first to theorize the concept of a reaction force for every force exerted. [8]