page_title: Schola Medica Salernitana
hierarchical_section_title: Schola Medica Salernitana
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: La Scuola Medica Salernitana così come appare in una miniatura del Canone di Avicenna. L'immagine rappresenta la storia leggendaria di Roberto, duca di Normandia. Ferito mortalmente da una freccia, fu salvato eroicamente dalla moglie che ne succhiò il veleno come era stato prescritto dai medici di Salerno. Deutsch: Die Scuola Medica Salernitana als Miniaturansicht im Canon des Avicenna. Das Bild zeigt eine Legende um den normannischen Herzog Robert. Durch einen Pfeil tödlich verwundet wurde er heldenhaft durch seine Frau gerettet, die - wie von den Ärzten verordnet - das vergiftete Blut aus der Wunde saugte.
context_page_description: The Schola Medica Salernitana was a Medieval medical school, the first and most important of its kind. Situated on the Tyrrhenian Sea in the south Italian city of Salerno, it was founded in the 9th century and rose to prominence in the 10th century, becoming the most important source of medical knowledge in Western Europe at the time.
  Arabic medical treatises, both those that were translations of Greek texts and those that were originally written in Arabic, had accumulated in the library of Montecassino, where they were translated into Latin; thus the received lore of Hippocrates, Galen and Dioscorides was supplemented and invigorated by Arabic medical practice, known from contacts with Sicily and North Africa. As a result, the medical practitioners of Salerno, both men and women, were unrivalled in the medieval Western Mediterranean for practical concerns.
context_section_description: The Schola Medica Salernitana (Italian: Scuola Medica Salernitana) was a Medieval medical school, the first and most important of its kind. Situated on the Tyrrhenian Sea in the south Italian city of Salerno, it was founded in the 9th century and rose to prominence in the 10th century, becoming the most important source of medical knowledge in Western Europe at the time.
  Arabic medical treatises, both those that were translations of Greek texts and those that were originally written in Arabic, had accumulated in the library of Montecassino, where they were translated into Latin; thus the received lore of Hippocrates, Galen and Dioscorides was supplemented and invigorated by Arabic medical practice, known from contacts with Sicily and North Africa. As a result, the medical practitioners of Salerno, both men and women, were unrivalled in the medieval Western Mediterranean for practical concerns.
caption: A miniature depicting the Schola Medica Salernitana from a copy of Avicenna's Canons
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