Byzantine Science - Medicine

Medicine

Medicine was one of the sciences in which the Byzantines improved on their Greco-Roman predecessors. As a result, Byzantine medicine had an influence on Islamic medicine as well as the medicine of the Renaissance.

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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:

    Good medicine is bitter to the taste.
    Chinese proverb.

    No medicine in the world can do thee good;
    In thee there is not half an hour’s life.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Good medicine is bitter, but it cures illness.
    —Chinese proverb.

    Confucius.