Henry Ebenezer Handerson
Published: 2018-02-25
Total Pages: 64
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Excerpt from The School of Salernum: An Historical Sketch of Medieval Medicine On the other hand, Malgaigne and Daremberg5 agree that there is no evidence of any knowledge of Arabian medicine at Salernum prior to the time of Constantine the African, toward the close of the eleventh century. On one point, however, in the history of the School of Salernum all writers happily agree: I refer to the important influence exerted upon its development by the Benedictine monks of Monte Casino. We have seen that several writers on the history of medicine believe that the school was founded by the monks of this famous monastery. Whether this be so or not, the monastery of Monte Casino, it self a school of medicine of wide reputation in its day, and cer' tainly intimately connected with the School of Salernum, de serves, and will, I trust, excuse, a short digression from our main subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.