Description
Cosmas and Damian were Arab physicians who treated the poor without payment and were martyred under Diocletian; they became the patrons of medicine, and the subject of the most famous miracle in surgical iconography, the transplanted leg. This eighteenth-century Spanish study takes them seriously as history rather than legend, weighing the acts of their martyrdom against what can be established. It belongs to a moment when Spanish medicine was acquiring a sense of its own past, and when hagiography and scholarship had not yet fully parted company. A curious and revealing document in the history of the medical profession's idea of itself.
Details
Publisher - EDITIONS RECREASOFT
Language - Spanish
Perfect Bound
Contributors
By author
Rafael Casalbon
Published Date - 0001-01-01
ISBN - 9782387810793
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Page Count - 246
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