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https://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Flateyjarbok_Haraldr_Halfdan.jpg750558The medicine of medieval Europe was influenced above all by the Hippocratic and Galenic legacies, conveyed through the medical School of Salerno, albeit also to an extent embedded in demonological and supernatural beliefs and folklore customs.