Christianity Flashcards
True or False. Epidemics in Constantinople initiated a revival of magical practices.
True
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3 Greek physicians who maintained the older tradition amidst moral decadence, superstition and intellectual disorders
1) Oribasius
2) Alexander of Tralles
3) Paul of Aegina
St. Bernard of Nursia [Monte Cassino, Italy]
- founded the Benedictine order
- obligated members to study the sciences
Bertharius III [Monte Cassino, Italy]
famous physician w o w
Where was the first european medical school founded?
Salerno (near Naples)
Trotula [Salerno]
- best-known woman prof
- gynecologist who published a handbook on midwifery
Under the Frankish theologian ___________, Fulda became a famous center of medial learning in Germany
Rabanus Maurus
It was due to his efforts that medicine was included in the curriculum of cathedral schools
Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor
During the 9th and 10th centuries, the _______ became recognized as the center of medical activity
health resort of Salermo
Constantine the African
- Italian physician and translator who became a Benedictine monk
- prepared Latin translations of Arabic and Greek medical classics so its Graeco-Roman heritage was revived
Regimen Sanitatis
- school of Salerno’s collection of domestic medicine in the form of proverbs
True or False. Women were not admitted to the school of Salerno.
False.
True or False. The School of Salerno still regarded suppuration (formation of pus) as part of natural wound healing.
True.
School that became the center of medical knowledge in the 11th century; physiology and pathology followed that of Galen; first organized medical school in Europe
School of Salerno
Archbishop Raimundo
- founded at Toledo, Spain, an institue for translation of Arabic medical manuscripts into Latin
Lanfranchi
- pioneered in surgical anatomy along with William of Saliceto (his teacher)
- first to differentiate hypertrophy and breast cancer
Pietro d’Abano
- reconciled differences of Greek and Arabic systems
Henri de Mondeville
- advocated antiseptic treatment of wounds
- use of sutures
Emperor Frederick II
- created law stating that a year of postgraduate practice under an established physician was required before the graduate was licensed
Taddeo Alderotti
- established post-mortem dissections
- early developer of Consilia (medical case book; advice was given by by professor to younger physicians)
This city was also known as the Hippocratic City
Salerno
Describe the curriculum of the school of Salerno
It required 3 years of preliminary studies, and 5 years of medical studies in order to receive the degree of magister / doctor
Guy de Chauliac
- Father of French surgery
- first to recognize the plague in Europe
- first to describe femoral hernia
- believed in the doctrine of pus
- popularized scorpion oil as diuretic in venereal diseases (STDs)
Arnold of Villanova
- invented alcoholic tincture of herbs
- “women are poisonous creatures”
