Romero HA, Limón EIG, López SR, Huante PJA, Martínez RMA, Olvera GGY

Language: Spanish
References: 19
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ABSTRACT

The medical task carried out in European territories by members of the Muslim, Christian and Jewish cultures was based on the doctrinal complex set up by the Pergamon physician, that historiography has called Galenism; it is due to the Arabs the interest in using it since the centuries V-IV b. C. This corpus of knowledge created by Galen manifests a decisive hegemony in the medieval minds; various guilds adopted it in their thought and medical practice, especially the doctors graduated from the universities throughout the Middle Ages. Galenism was characterized by offering an arsenal of measures to rationally address the health-disease process, designing a series of methodological approaches that were very helpful to medieval society, as well as providing the resources to meet their health demands. Medieval medicine, doctrinally supported by Galenism, considered health and disease as natural processes perfectly understandable and modifiable. It was implemented by overcoming the positions and creeds of all social and religious groups scattered throughout the European geography, including the territories of Spain. The arrival of this medical corpus in the medieval Christian world, that affected the most basic aspects of the scientific and rational conception of the world, provoked a profound cultural impact, gradually establishing itself until it was accepted in the different regions and social strata, remaining valid more than any other medical system created.

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