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A Living Chronicle: A Tapestry of People, Events and Institutions
FOUNDATIONS OF NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE
Era of
Vitalist Traditions from European & Middle Eastern Medicine 1001-1800
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1000s
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGEBASE
1025 Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (Arabic) The Canon of Medicine (Ibn Sina/Avicenna), widely influential medical text, especially Islamic Unani medicine and medicine in Medieval Europe. Standard medical text until 18th century in Europe; used
in Unani Medicine today; relevant to Naturopathic theory.
1085ca Pantegni, a significant encyclopedia of medicine written by the tenth-century Persian writer ‘Ali ibn al-‘Abbas al-Majusi and translated into Latin by a North African merchant-turned- monk, Constantine the African; scholars
have concluded that this manuscript appears
to have been produced at the Abbey of Monte Cassino under Constantine the African’s direct supervision; Constantine died sometime before 1098-99. Oldest known copy in Europe, 1085; part of influx of Arabic and ancient Greek sources influences epochal shift in the learned medicine of Europe.
1098 Hildegard von Bingen (d. 1179) Catholic (Benedictine) nun, abbess, visionary, composer, theologian, mystic; practiced humoral medicine as an infirmarian and is considered a great teacher of her time; influential today. Wrote on herbs
and healing including three theology books,
two medical texts, including Causes and Cures
and Physica, 70 pieces of music, among other works. Cultivated theory of viriditas, “the greening force”, and physician as gardener, while advancing humoral and elemental theory.
1100s
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGEBASE
1100 Trota of Salerno studied medicine in Salerno and wrote at least one of the books in a collection on women’s health, known as Trotula Major.
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