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| A medieval depiction of removing of a cataract. | Diagnosis of diseases was
achieved by using the concept of complexional imbalance as a fundamental
explanatory mechanism to interpret
clinical manifestations.
The illustration depicts a physician taking pulse of his patient. Taking of the pulse was not for the purpose of measuring the blood flow, since the medievals did not know of blood circulation, but rather of the strength of hearth spasms
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Theophilus Protospatharius,
On Urines This Byzantine manuscript is illustrated with techniques and divisions of uroscopy. Seated at top left is Theophilus, a famous seventh century Greek whose treatise On Urines was much used throughout the Greek East and the Latin West (in translation). Handing Theophilos a urine flask is his assistant, Posos, |
An edition of De Materia Medica by Dioscurides, prepared for Julia Anicia, daughter of Emperor Anicius Olybrius. The manuscript also has Arabic annotations because it came into the hands of an Arabic owner. Here, wild blackberry is described and illustrated |
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A page from old medical textbook Compendium Medicinae Universae from Zwinger Theodor printed in Basel, 1724 |
Front page of Hermani Boerhave's book - Libellus de materie medica. Medical textbook from early XVIII century. |
This scene, on the inside of a dish dating about 490 BCE, depicts Achilles binding a wound on Patroklos’s arm. It exemplifies the prevalent formality in patient treatment at that time: a prescribed kneeling position for particular tasks and an overall calmness of manner.
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| Front page of old anatomical textbook - Syntagma Anatomicum |
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