[Sca-cooks] Two pleasant announcements

[Terry Decker]

It might be fair to say Galen was the definitive physician for all of the
lands in contact with the Mediterranean.  His work forms the base for most
of the medical texts from Persia westward from the 2nd to the 17th
Centuries.

Bear

>> 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.
>
>Avraham
>