Facets

First edition of the original Greek text, a medieval Latin translation based on Auxerre 240, a German translation, and a detailed commentary by Pithis of the De pulsibus by the obscure Byzantine physician Philaretos, …

Ibn-al-Nafis, a Syrian physician, described the lesser circulation in his commentary on the anatomy of the Canon of Avicenna, 1268. This was discovered in three Arabic MSS by Mohyi el Din el Tatawi, who included a Ger…

This is the first printing of the medical and therapeutic section of Abul Qasim’s medical encyclopedia or al-Tasrif. It contains what is probably the earliest description of hemophilia (fol. 145). Digital facsim…

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) DIOCLES OF CARYSTUS, (Διοκλῆς ὁ Καρύστιος) (-375 – -295) MELETIUS OF TIBERIOPOLIS (750 – 800) POLEMON, Marcus Antonius (Polemon of Laodicea) (90 – 144) PETREIUS, Nicolas (1500 – 1568)

This collection of Late Antique and Byzantine medicine edited by Nicolas Petreius begins with a Byzantine treatise on anatomy, probably written in the eighth century by Meletius, a Christian monk and physician from Ph…