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Hildegard of Bingen served as an infirmarian at her first monastery and was well-acquainted with various medical traditions. [2] What was subsequently given the conventional title of Physica, or Medicine, by Johannes Schott [3] is part of Hildegard's lost medical collection, the Subtilitatum diversarum naturarum creaturarum libri novem (Nine Books on the Subtleties of Different Kinds of ...
Hildegard of Bingen OSB, (German: Hildegard von Bingen, pronounced [ˈhɪldəɡaʁt fɔn ˈbɪŋən]; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis; c. 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and ...
Hildegard of Bingen was an example of a medieval medical practitioner who, while educated in classical Greek medicine, also utilized folk medicine remedies. [13] Her understanding of the plant based medicines informed her commentary on the humors of the body and the remedies she described in her medical text Causae et curae were influenced by ...
The genus is named for Saint Hildegard of Bingen due to her contributions to herbal medicine. [1] There are 13 species with a pantropical distribution. [2] Species include: Hildegardia ankaranensis (Arènes) Kosterm. Hildegardia australensis G.Leach & M.Cheek (1991) Hildegardia barteri (Mast.) Kosterm. Hildegardia cubensis (Urb.) Kosterm ...
Viriditas (Latin, literally "greenness," formerly translated as "viridity" [1]) is a word meaning vitality, fecundity, lushness, verdure, or growth.It is particularly associated with abbess Hildegard von Bingen, who used it to refer to or symbolize spiritual and physical health, often as a reflection of the Divine Word or as an aspect of the divine nature.
A fact from Physica (Hildegard) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 April 2024 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that according to Lois N. Magner, Hildegard of Bingen's Physica is "probably the first book by a female author to discuss the elements and the therapeutic virtues of plants, animals, and metals"?
Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing (2017), Riverhead Books (Penguin). God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine (2013), Riverhead Books (Penguin). Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine (Studies in Medieval History and Culture) (2006), Routledge.
Scivias survives in ten medieval manuscripts, two of them lost in modern times. [4] The most esteemed of these was the well-preserved Rupertsberg manuscript, prepared under her immediate supervision or that of her immediate tradition, being made around the time of her death.