Theophilus Protospatharius, De urinis. The Latin translation of the treatise on urines composed by the Byzantine physician Theophilos Protospatharios (7th century), and translated from Greek into Latin around 1100. Title 'Incipit liber urinarum a voce Theophili editus', incipit: 'Be [sic] urinarum d...
Philaretus, De pulsibus. The Latin translation of a treatise on pulses traditionally attributed to Philaretus or Philaretos (7th century), but which circulated in Byzantium anonymously or under the name of Galen. Title 'Incipit liber Philareti de negocio pul/suum', incipit: 'Intencionem habemus in p...
Isaac Judeus, Dietae particulares. The Latin translation by Constantinus Africanus (c. 1020-1098/9) of the second part of the treatise on simple drugs and diet (Kitāb al-adwiya al-mufrada wa-l-aghdiya) composed in Arabic by Abū Ya'qūb Ishāq ibn Sulaymān al-Isrā’īlī (fl. c. 855-932), known in Europe ...
The Latin translation of the De regimine acutorum or Regimen in Acute Diseases, a treatise on general medical precepts on pathology by Hippocrates of Kos (460-375 BC). The translation, made from an Arabic version, is variously attributed to Constantinus Africanus (c. 1020-1098/9) and therefore to th...
Isaac Judeus, Dietae universales. The Latin translation by Constantinus Africanus (c. 1020-1098/9) of the first part of the treatise on simple drugs and diet (Kitāb al-adwiya al-mufrada wa-l-aghdiya) composed in Arabic by Abū Ya'qūb Ishāq ibn Sulaymān al-Isrā’īlī (fl. c. 855-932), known to the West ...
Nicholaus Salernitanus, Antidotarium. A copy of a collection of remedies in alphabetical order called Antidotary and written possibly in the mid-13th century by an anonymous doctor traditionally called Nicholaus. His material derived from a collective oral tradition which had been put together in Sa...
Aegidius de Corbeil, Pulses. The poetic summary by Giles of Corbeil (d. c. 1220/1224) of Philaretus's treatise on pulses compiled to help university students in the memorisation of diagnostic tools of medical practice. Incipit: 'Ingenii vires modicis conatibus inpar', explicit: 'Iam sterilem cultum ...
Hippocrates, Prognosticon. The Latin translation of the work by Hippocrates of Kos (460-375 BC) relating to acute illnesses and their treatments. The author of the present translation, made in the late 11th century from Arabic sources and not from the original text in Greek, is identifiable with Con...
The Latin translation by Constantinus Africanus (c.1020-1098/9) of an Arabic treatise on urines (Kitāb al-bawl) by Abū Ya'qūb Ishāq ibn Sulaymān al-Isrā’īlī (fl. c.855-932), known to the West as Isaac Judaeus or Isaac Israeli, a Jewish doctor and philosopher, and physician of the Fatimid caliph 'Uba...
Johannitius, Isagoge. The Latin translation of a short compendium of medical theory traditionally attributed to a Syrian Nestorian doctor, Johannitius, purportedly the son or pupil of the medical commentator John of Alexandria (7th century). However, the original text was an Arabic compendium of the...