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Alexander The Great Conquered All of The Mediterranean But, As
Alexander The Great Conquered All of The Mediterranean But, As
Alexander The Great Conquered All of The Mediterranean But, As
There were protecting saints for every organ and against all
diseases: St. Lucy was protector of the eyes, St. Apollonia of the
teeth, St. Blaise for the throat, St. Fiacre protected against
haemorrhoids, St. Anthony against leprosy, and St. Roch against
plague, St. Anne parturition and St. Agatha against diseases of
breast.
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(1) One recalls Herophilus's torcular.
(2) This was due to the fact that when an incision was made into
an animal, the veins were full of blood while the arteries were
not.
(3) One recalls the first attempt to classify the various vegetables
with particular attention being paid to their medicinal properties,
made by Theofrastos, a student of Aristotle.
(4) This is the sect which went back to the atomistic theory, to
that of pores.
(5) Dental surgery is of Etruscan origin as they were able
dentists: in fact, they used dental prosthetics and dental
implants.
(6) From Pergamos were the people who invented books. These
were made of sheepskins suitably treated, which could be written
on, and which were used as a substitiute for the much more
costly Egyptian papyrus.
(7) The first of these was quite diffuse in Europe and is still
present in Gibraltar nowadays where there is a colony of
monkeys on the Rock.
(8) It is believed that is was introducd by Mithradates, king of
Ponto.
(9) This system was described by Aristotle following his studies
on animals, which mainly concerned animals with long necks,
such as horses in whose neck exists a vascular system which
acts to keep the blood warm in the long passage towards the
encephalon.
(10) On the occasion of the first exchanges between eastern and
western, the former complained about the fact that the
westerners smelt, and not just a little! Indeed, in the 17th century
the King of France only washed once a year!
(11) An eschar forms in these which blocks the blood flow.
(12) An exquisite product of the Moorish civilisation is conserved
in Cagliari in the National Art Gallery: It is a jug taking the form of
a bird made of bronze which was offered to the guest so that he
or she could wash their hands before the meal (a ewer).
(13) Among other things the remains of one of the saints and one
of the church doctors were conserved for a good 500 years in
Cagliari: St. Augustine of African origin, who had been Bishop of
Hippo, in Numidia. When the Barbary pirates invaded Roman
Africa, the African Bishops of Hippo brought the remains of St.
Augustine to a safe place, namely Cagliari, where they remained
for about 500 years until the Lombard king Liutprandus acquired
the remains and those of St. Lussorius, Camerinus and Cesellus,
who were the latter's grooms, from the judge of Cagliari in order
to demonstrate that he was a truly Catholic king. St. Augustine
and the other saints were buried in Pavia. On the other hand, the
head of St. Lussorius ended up in Pisa, in the church of the
Cavalieri. A silver bust of him was also commissioned to the
famous Donatello. Demonstrating the strength of the cult of the
saints, the tenure of the President of the Italian Republic
(formerly of the King of Italy) was dedicated to St. Rossore (the
Pisan equivalent of St. Lussorius).
(14) Until recently, the church of St. Saturnin at Cagliari was
dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian since the two saints
were painted in a picture inside the church. Today this church
has been rededicated to its original saint.
(15) In reality it is astrology.
(16) It was considered to be an exact science in that it was
composed of the exact succession of the seven notes.