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Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale

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Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
Scuola Medica Salernitana Museo Virtuale
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+39 089 257 6126

Hours:
Sunday10am - 1pm
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
WednesdayClosed
Thursday10am - 1pm, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Friday10am - 1pm, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Saturday10am - 1pm, 4:30pm - 6:30pm


The Schola Medica Salernitana was a late Medieval medical school, the first and most important of its kind. Situated on the Tyrrhenian Sea in the south Italian city of Salerno, it was founded in the 9th century and rose to prominence in the 10th century, becoming the most important source of medical knowledge in Western Europe at the time. Arabic medical treatises, both those that were translations of Greek texts and those that were originally written in Arabic, had accumulated in the library of Montecassino, where they were translated into Latin; thus the received lore of Hippocrates, Galen and Dioscorides was supplemented and invigorated by Arabic medical practice, known from contacts with Sicily and North Africa. As a result, the medical practitioners of Salerno, both men and women, were unrivalled in the medieval Western Mediterranean for practical concerns.
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