Cardano the Physician

Markus Fierz

Chapter 2 in Girolamo Cardano, 1983, pp 37-55 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract CARDANO WAS A PRACTICING PHYSICIAN as well as a professor of medicine. Selections from the lectures he gave at Pavia and Bologna are included in his published works. They take the form of detailed commentaries on the classical medical authorities, Hippocrates, Galen, and Avicenna.1 These commentaries constitute a large part of Cardano’s medical writings and supply noteworthy information about teaching methods in the universities at that time. In addition, Cardano wrote numerous treatises on special topics, such as De Dentibus and De Urinis, as well as introductions to practical pharmacology like the Ars curandi parva. The latter text begins with a brief outline of his theory of physiology, which is essentially the same as that of Galen.

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Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-9206-4_2

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