13-08-2016, 11:18 PM
Leonardo Fioravanti (doctor) was an Italian practitioner of the medical arts from the mid through the late 1500s.
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I happened to find William Eamon's book, the one listed third in Further reading. While the timing might be a bit late for VMs parchment purists, and the subject himself was a strong and early opponent of Galenic tradition, there is still an overall presence of the established medical tradition he found himself up against. And in the situation of simples versus the complex compounds like theriac, Fioravanti favored the simples, in conflict with the societies of traditional physicians.
One thing Professor Eamon said about the physicians of the Humanist period was that they were focused more directly on Galen and were attempting to remove Arabic influences. Yet, as Diane's work shows, there were also Arabic formulas for theriac as well, potentially coming from or influenced by Galen also. But in the VMs, strangely, there's no theriac or so it seems.
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I happened to find William Eamon's book, the one listed third in Further reading. While the timing might be a bit late for VMs parchment purists, and the subject himself was a strong and early opponent of Galenic tradition, there is still an overall presence of the established medical tradition he found himself up against. And in the situation of simples versus the complex compounds like theriac, Fioravanti favored the simples, in conflict with the societies of traditional physicians.
One thing Professor Eamon said about the physicians of the Humanist period was that they were focused more directly on Galen and were attempting to remove Arabic influences. Yet, as Diane's work shows, there were also Arabic formulas for theriac as well, potentially coming from or influenced by Galen also. But in the VMs, strangely, there's no theriac or so it seems.