Life and medicine in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
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چکیده
December 2004, Vol. 94, No. 12 SAMJ science. Each of the prints contains ample evidence of zodiacal reasoning and the autumnus has a lunar aspectarium that enabled the medieval physician to accommodate the lunar influence on illness. The pregnancy volvelle in autumnus conceals a horoscope, the origin of which was traced to a Venetian publication of 1607. The left hand of the male figure in the same print shows several chiromantic symbols. Various schemes, tables and maps found on the prints thus show that the designer was deeply interested in and knowledgeable about cosmography and astrological medicine. The reproduced celestial hemispheres are based on sources printed in or shortly after 1592. This suggests that celestial and geographical information used was obtained from sources slightly earlier than the medical sources. The Four Seasons of Human Life therefore affords us a glimpse into the medico-scientific world of a Renaissance scholar. The clinical medicine mentioned is still very much based on Graeco-Roman ‘rational medicine’, and Hippocrates rather than Galen. Perhaps surprisingly there are no contributions from the Golden Age of Islam. Post-Vesalian anatomy is prominently displayed, and updated to the early 17th century. There are no clear borders yet between scientific medicine (as we know it today) and the pseudo-sciences of alchemy, astrology, cosmography and chiromancy, and the designer scholar shows a fair grasp of them all. One asks oneself how wide his knowledgeable reader audience of the time would have been.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde
دوره 94 12 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2004