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Hildegard of Bingen: On Natural Philosophy and Medicine: Selections from Cause Et Cure

Hildegard of Bingen: On Natural Philosophy and Medicine: Selections from Cause Et Cure

Berger, Margret

Paperback

PhilosophyMedical ReferenceReligion General

ISBN10: 0859915514
ISBN13: 9780859915519
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: May 27 1999
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.51
Language: English
Medieval attitudes to health and treatment revealed in Hildegard's treatise.

Hildegard of Bingen [1098-1179], an important figure in her own time, has come increasingly to critical attention in recent years. Cause et Cure, attributed to Hildegard, is both a cosmological text and a medical handbook;it is a densely layered work woven together from diverse threads. It begins with a chapter on cosmology which leads to consideration of the human being as a small-scale copy of the universe. From here the focus shifts to the diseases and disorders which afflict human beings. The sections on treatment which follow provide information on medieval pharmacology and herbal healing. The text discusses the differences between male and female, human sexuality, embryology, sleep and dreams, signs predicting death or survival, astrological influences.

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