title: Isidore of Seville on the origins and meanings of medical terms.
abstract: Early in the 7th century of our era, the prelate and scholar Isidore of Seville compiled a Latin encyclopedia of classical learning that retained its popularity throughout the Middle Ages and into early modern times. This work, called Origines seu Etymologiae, treats many of its topics by tracing (often fancifully and incorrectly) the histories of their terms. From Book IV, which deals with medicine, 3 chapters containing glossaries of acute, chronic, and cutaneous diseases are here translated.
authors.forename: John H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Dirckx
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003880:Dermatology / Q000266:history*; D004018:Dictionaries, Medical as Topic; D004690:Encyclopedias as Topic; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000145:classification / Q000266:history*; D009626:Terminology as Topic