Abstract
This text is an analysis of a preventive medical work, Liber de conservanda sanitate, composed in the thirteenth century by the Portuguese physician and doctor, Peter of Spain (?1210-1277). His work enables us to look at the conceptions of health and hygiene and understand the social role of university physicians in medieval preventive medicine. The work constantly displays the notion of the balance in corporal health between internal elements, or natural things (complexion, for example), and external ones, or non-natural things (air, sleep, exercise, food, baths, passions of the soul).
Highlights
This text is an analysis of a preventive medical work, Liber de conservanda sanitate, composed in the thirteenth century by the Portuguese physician and doctor, Peter of Spain (?12101277)
His work enables us to look at the conceptions of health and hygiene and understand the social role of university physicians in medieval preventive medicine
The work constantly displays the notion of the balance in corporal health between internal elements, or natural things, and external ones, or non-natural things
Summary
A mong the various kinds of medieval medical texts in Latin the health regimens can be found, composed starting at the end of the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth in the European context of the emergence of urban university medicine. By authors of antiquity, such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen and Dioscorides, and Arab doctors and natural philosophers, such as Avicenna, Averroes, Haly Abbas, among others, these texts comprised the so called libri naturales, taught in the course of the Faculty of Arts (trivium and quadrivium), a prerequisite for anyone who wished to study medicine in the medieval universities of Paris, Montpellier and Siena At times, these works were banned by the Catholic Church, especially at the University of Paris, they continued to be read and commented upon by professors and their students. This regimen, written in epistolary form and directed to the English monarch, constituted one of the several examples of texts often made on request for popes, kings and noblemen of Western Christianity
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