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bib23382 (22 / November / 2024)

Darrera modificació: 2017-10-30
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat, Arnau

Salmón, Fernando, "Signa quibus cognoscuntur rationes Arnaldi?: Arnau de Vilanova's last years of medical production", dins: Pantano, Giuseppe (ed.), Arnaldo da Villanova e la Sicilia. I Convegno Internazionale in memoria di Alessandro Musco (Montalbano Elicona, 7-9 maggio 2015), Palerm, Officina di Studi Medievali (Biblioteca dell'Officina di Studi Medievali, 20), 2017, pp. 115-126.

Resum
The sixteenth century editions of the Arnaldian Opera include a fragmentary work under the title De parte operativa. Historiography has traditionally understood this work as a practical part that would have been envisioned by Arnau as a sequel to his Speculum medicine. The analysis of both works strongly suggests that the composition of the Speculum and the De parte are related and that the De parte is another testimony to Arnau's last years of medical production. However, taking the De parte as another late testimony to Arnau's mature medical thought opens up some questions that derive from its fragmentary nature and from the particularities of the structure and content of the work. The paper critically examines to what extent is it safe to use an unfinished and fragmentary work to add precision to our knowledge on how Arnau came to understand the limits of medical action at the end of his life.
Matèries
Vilanova, Arnau de
Medicina
Llatí
Biografia
What are the images?

The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).

Centre de Documentació Ramon Llull

Lluís Cifuentes i Comamala
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Centre de Documentació Ramon Llull
Dept. de Filologia Catalana i Lingüística General
Universitat de Barcelona

Institut Interuniversitari Lopez Piñero

Carmel Ferragud Domingo
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Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero
Dept. d’Història de la Ciència i Documentació
Universitat de València