Medicine as Science in the Early Commentaries on ‘Johannitius’
In the prologue to his De commixtionibus elementorum, the Salernitan master Urso contrasts the ‘volumina numerosa’ of practical medicine with the ‘pau-cula … in idiomate latino volumina’ on theory. Urso explains the contrast by comparing the ease of compiling a practical manual with the arduous task...
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| Language: | English |
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1987
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Traditio
Year: 1987, Volume: 43, Pages: 121-145 |
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| Summary: | In the prologue to his De commixtionibus elementorum, the Salernitan master Urso contrasts the ‘volumina numerosa’ of practical medicine with the ‘pau-cula … in idiomate latino volumina’ on theory. Urso explains the contrast by comparing the ease of compiling a practical manual with the arduous task of discovering and disclosing the secrets of nature. This comparison leads him to standard topics for a preface — the author's own inabilities and need for divine grace, the various demands on diligence in the reader. Indeed, the central contrast of the prologue seems more a topos than a strict judgment of the state of medical theory among the Salernitans. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0362152900012502 |