Bernard de Gordon
Illustration — Portrait of Bernard de Gordon Bernard de Gordon (Bernardus Gordonensis; 1270 - 1330) was a French medical doctor and professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier from 1285. In 1296 he wrote the therapeutic work, De decem ingeniis seu indicationibus curandorum morborum. His most important work was the Lilium medicinae, printed in Naples in 1480, Lyon in 1491, and Venice in 1494.
Bernard de Gordon
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Illustration — Portrait of Bernard de Gordon Bernard de Gordon (Bernardus Gordonensis; 1270 - 1330) was a French medical doctor and professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier from 1285. In 1296 he wrote the therapeutic work, De decem ingeniis seu indicationibus curandorum morborum. His most important work was the Lilium medicinae, printed in Naples in 1480, Lyon in 1491, and Venice in 1494.
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It describes plague, tuberculosis, scabies, epilepsy, anthrax, and leprosy. In the 15th century, it was translated into Irish by physician and scribe Cormac Mac Duinnshléibhe.
• De regimine acutorum morborum, 1294. • Liber pronosticorum/Tractatus de crisi et de diebus creticis, 1295. • De Decem Ingeniis curandorum morborum, 1299. • Liber de conservatione vitae humanae, 1308. • Practica seu Lilium medicinae, 1303.
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Bernard de Gordon was born on 1 January 1258.
1320
Bernard de Gordon died at Perpignan.
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Bernard de Gordon was born at Gourdon.
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Bernard de Gordon died at Perpignan.
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The circumstances in which Bernard de Gordon stands. La transmission neuromusculaire. Les médiateurs et le "Milieu intérieur". Colloque international organisé à l'occasion de la célébration du centenaire de la mort de C. M0002601: Portrait of Bernard de Gordon (fl. Work and production. Works recorded as notable number 3: Lilium medicinae, Tractatus de crisi et de diebus creticis and De decem ingeniis seu indicationibus curandorum morborum.
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- Alonso Guardo, Alberto, Los pronosticos medicos en la medicina medieval : el Tractatus de crisi et de diebus creticis de Bernardo de Gordonio, Universidad de Valladolid, 2003.
- Conde Parrado P. - Montero Cartelle E. - Herrero Ingelmo MC. (Ed.) (Texto latino y trad. en castellano), Bernard de Gordon : Tractatus de conceptu / Tractatus de sterilitate mulierum Valladolid, Editorial Univ. de Valladolid, 1999.
- Cull John – Dutton Brian, Lilio de medicina : un manual basico de medicine medieval, ed. Madison: Hispanic seminary of medieval studies, 1991.
- Demaitre Luke, Doctor Bernard de Gordon : professor and practitioner, Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1980.
- Dutton Brian – Nieves Sanchez Maria, Bernard de Gordonio : Lilio de medicina, Madrid, Arco/libros, 1993.
- Grmek Mirko D. (dir.), Histoire de la pensée médicale en Occident, tome 1 : antiquité et Moyen Âge, Paris, Le Seuil, 1995.
- Wickersheimer Ernest, Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au Moyen Age, Genève, Librairie Droz, 1979.
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