Kidney dysfunction, from the Arabic to the Byzantine world in 11th and 12th century southern Italy.
Greek classical medicine was not transmitted directly from classical antiquity to the Western Middle Ages by a continuous tradition, but passed through the Arabic world, where it had been preserved thanks to translations from Syriac and/or Greek into Arabic. From the Arabic world, Greek medicine arrived to the West, through the Greek- or the Latin-speaking communities in Sicily and the mainland, respectively. Remarkably enough, the scientific content of the text was scrupulously respected.
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Smithsonian Institution and Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA. research@medicaltraditions.org
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