Doctors and doctors: some curious chapters in medical history and quackery.

  • Everitt, Graham.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Doctors and doctors: some curious chapters in medical history and quackery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    equilibrium. In the ninth century, books were wi'itten by Berthier, Abb^ of the convent of Monte Casino, and others. The convents we have named practically acquired a reputation as schools of medicine, and students as well as sufferers of all kinds resorted thither from distant parts. Towards the eleventh century, by translations from the Arabic into Latin of portions of Galen and other Greek and Arabic medical authors, science and the use of natural remedies gradually began—as in the temples of ^Esculapius of old—to supersede to some extent the practices of bigotry and super- stition. The clerical physicians of Salernum had acquired such a reputation in the twelfth century that they were consulted by Robert, son of William the Conqueror of England, who, on his return from Palestine, disembarked there to be treated for a wound he had received in the Holy Land, and which had been mismanaged by his own attendants.