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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 1130: Health Rules and Health Evidence

Wednesday 13 July 2011, 11.15-12.45

Moderator/Chair:Sandrine Victor, France méridionale et Espagne: histoire des sociétés du Moyen-Âge à l'époque contemporaine (FRA.M.ESPA - UMR 5136), Centre Universitaire de Formation et de Recherche Jean François Champollion, Albi
Paper 1130-aNutrition and Diet for the Rich: A 13th-Century Health Rule
(Language: English)
Dulce Oliveira Amarante dos Santos, Faculdade de História, Universidade Federal de Goiás
Index terms: Daily Life, Medicine
Paper 1130-bEl poema médico medieval de la 'Collectio Salernitana' (IV, 1-176): Análisis de las fuentes del capítulo VII, titulado 'De modo medendi'
(Language: Español)
Alberto Alonso Guardo, Departamento de Filología Clásica, Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Valladolid
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Medicine, Mentalities
Paper 1130-cMedicina para pobres, medicina para ricos
(Language: Español)
Maria Carmen Fernández Tijero, Departamento de Filología Clásica, Universidad de Valladolid / Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London
Index terms: Daily Life, Education, Language and Literature - Latin, Medicine
Abstract

Paper -a:
This paper seeks to analyse a medieval text on preventive medicine, Liber de conservanda sanitate, ascribed to the physician Petrus Hispanus (1220?-1277), also known as Pope John XXI. It is a 13th-century health rule composed for the rich emperor Frederick II (1194-1250), in some manuscripts, which refers to measures taken to prevent diseases rather than curing them, e. g., related to Dietetics, one branch of the medieval pratica medica. The first, Summa de conservanda sanitate, encompass beneficial habitudes in the four seasons of the year; the second, De his que conferunt et nocent, recommends a list of beneficial and nocive substances for human bodies organs; and the last, Qui vult custodire sanitatem, focuses the nutrition care, with a food diet and others cares related to the six non naturals things from Galen. So the nutrition was considered important for the health and the text focuses on diets that are suitable for winter and summer.

Paper -b:
Dentro de la 'Collectio Salernitana', publicada por Salvatore de Renzi, se encuentra un extenso poema médico titulado 'De secretis mulierum, de chirurgia et de modo medendi libri septem' (tomo IV, pp. 1-176).
Dicho poema está versificando diferentes obras en prosa de ámbito salernitano. Nuestro objetivo es la identificación y estudio de las fuentes de su capítulo séptimo, que tiene por título 'De modo medendi' y que versa sobre los procedimientos y las maneras de restablecer la salud del enfermo. Dentro de este tema, se tratan cuestiones como la visita y el examen del enfermo por parte del médico, los tipos de tratamiento, y las clases, características y propiedades de los medicamentos.

Paper -c:
This paper sets up an approach to the social differentiation regarding the medical treatment in the Low Middle Ages. This study is based on the information contained in the medical texts, written in Latin by those practitioners who practiced and teached in the incipient European universities.