[Sca-cooks] Two pleasant announcements

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Avraham haRofeh of Sudentur:
>  > Question:Who were the top medieval physicians or were most of them
>>  philosophers of medicine?
>
>Depends on when, where and your definitions. In most of Western Europe in
>period, Galen was THE definitive physician. In 12th century Egypt and
>Moorish Spain, the famed Jewish philosopher Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides,
>aka the Rambam) was court physician for both the Caliph in Egypt (Mameluke?)
>and the Moorish ruler of Spain.
>
>>  What about dieticians? 20th century invention :)?
>
>Yes.
>
>Avraham

Huh. Buttes' "Dyets Dry Dinner", isn't that 16th or 17th century?
Andrew Boorde, whose "Dyetery of Helth" (1542?) concerns, as its name
suggests, achieving good health through diet rather than addressing
prescriptions or surgery. What about Dr. Kellogg, of Battle Creek,
Michigan, for that matter? Dr. Salisbury?

Or am I simply unclear on what a dietician is? Are we really talking
about the people who create the menus in school cafeterias and
hospitals, or is it simply that all these previously mentioned works
and people come under the heading of medical stuff? That would be
kind of like saying there were no period midwives, since what they
did was medical in nature. But before I can hyperextend somebody's
argument, I need to understand it a little better ;-)

Adamantius