The Pulse: A Medieval Lie-Detector?
Although there was quite a lot that medieval people hadn’t yet discovered about the human body, their keenness of their observation shouldn’t be underestimated.
Dyes, Diets and Deodorants: Venetian Beauty Secrets Revealed
If you think it’s hard to keep up a beauty regime now, wait until you see what lengths the Venetians went to in order to be beautiful!
Rabies in medieval Persian literature – the Canon of Avicenna (980–1037 AD)
Avicenna described rabies in humans and animals and explained its clinical manifestations, route of transmission, and treatment methods. In this article, our goal is to discuss Avicenna’s 11th-century points of view on rabies and compare them with modern medical knowledge.
Medieval Movie Review: The Physician
It’s a brilliant film and one well worth your medieval Saturday night in!
Avicenna’s Concept of Cardiovascular Drug Targeting in Medicamenta Cordialia
Avicenna (980 – 1037 AD) known as the prince of physicians in the west was one of the most prominent Persian thinkers, philosophers, and physicians. Owing to his interests in cardiology, he authored considerable works on different aspects of cardiology.
Peripheral facial palsy in the past: contributions from Avicenna, Nicolaus Friedreich and Charles Bell
This study provides historical documents of peripheral facial palsy from Egypt, Greece and Rome, through the middle ages, and the renaissance, and into the last four centuries.
The Canon: Essential Artillery of the Medieval Medical Student
Used in the first medical universities in history, it was years ahead of its time, proving to be relevant in education half a millennium after it was originally written.
A medieval Arabic analysis of motion at an instant : the Avicennan sources to the forma fluens/fluxus formae debate
The first and foremost topic of classical and medieval physics is the concept of motion
(Grk. kine ̄sis, Arb. h ̇ araka, Lat. motio). Within the complex of issues and problems associated with motion, the question ‘in which category does motion itself belong?’ occupied a position of considerable importance in scholastic natural philosophy.
“Neoplatonic Influence in the Writings of Robert Grosseteste”
“Neoplatonic Influence in the Writings of Robert Grosseteste” Hendrix, John Shannon (Roger Williams University) School of Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Papers (2008) Abstract…
Education and Curricula in Early Universities: Some Documentary Evidence
Education and Curricula in Early Universities: Some Documentary Evidence Nicolay V. TSAREVSKY (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA) Chemistry: Bulgarian Journal of Chemistry…
In Search of Ibn Sina’s ”Oriental Philosophy“ in Medieval Castile
In Search of Ibn Sina’s ”Oriental Philosophy“ in Medieval Castile Szpiech, Ryan (University of Michigan) Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, Vol.20, (2010) Abstract Scholars…
MENTAL EXISTENCE IN THOMAS AQUINAS AND AVICENNA
MENTAL EXISTENCE IN THOMAS AQUINAS AND AVICENNA Black, Deborah L. Mediaeval Studies, Vol. 61 (1999) Abstract Traditionally it was the case that in philosophical…