title: Kidney dysfunction, from the Arabic to the Byzantine world in 11th and 12th century southern Italy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Smithsonian Institution and Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA. research@medicaltraditions.org
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Touwaide
mesh_terms: D018612:Byzantium; D018645:Greek World / Q000266:history; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000266:history*; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic / Q000266:history; D008514:Medicine, Arabic / Q000266:history; D009398:Nephrology / Q000266:history*