Was there a Medical School at Salerno in Roman Times?
It is sometimes assumed in the Italian historiography that the medieval school of medicine at Salerno continued the medical tradition of ancient Salerno; the ancient Salernitan school, in its turn, would represent a continuation of that of Velia. The existence of such a school has been assumed on th...
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Veröffentlicht in: | European review (Chichester, England) England), 2012-10, Vol.20 (4), p.526-533 |
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Zusammenfassung: | It is sometimes assumed in the Italian historiography that the medieval school of medicine at Salerno continued the medical tradition of ancient Salerno; the ancient Salernitan school, in its turn, would represent a continuation of that of Velia. The existence of such a school has been assumed on the grounds of rather sparse evidence consisting of a passage in the first book of Horace's Epistles and a Latin inscription from the first century AD mentioning a medicus clinicus. |
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ISSN: | 1062-7987 1474-0575 |
DOI: | 10.1017/S1062798712000099 |