Medicine, 1080
Medical research progresses at the Benedictine school associated with the monastery established at Monte Cassino in 529.
Arabian, Jewish, and Greco-Roman medical works are translated into Latin by Constantine the African, a physician who has studied medicine and magic at Babylon and who is now disguised as a monk. His translations of Galen and Avicenna help to emancipate medicine from the religious bonds that have held it.
Has medicine ever really been emancipated from religion? What say you about stem cell research?
Image by Markus Wittl
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