Daily Medieval

We started a conversation yesterday on the use of urine by medieval Western European physicians to determine health. I thought today we...

An Andalusian Arab named Ibn Juljul wrote  Ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbā’ w’al-hukamā’ ("Generations of Physicians and Wise Men") in the late ...

Some of the works translated at Toledo by our old friend Gerard of Cremona were the Book of Definitions  and the Book of Elements  into Lat...