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Jacquart, Danielle, "The introduction of Arabic medicine into the West: the question of etiology", dins: Campbell, Sheila D. - Hall, Bert S. - Klausner, David (eds.), Health, disease, and healing in medieval culture, Nova York - Basingstoke (UK), St. Martin's Press - Macmillan, 1992, pp. 186-195.
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- According to thirteenth- and fourteenth-century university physicians, the knowledge they had of the causes of diseases was the main feature that distinguished them from quacks, and the authorities of the profession continually enjoined practitioners to take etiology into account. As early as 1271, the Parisian Faculty of Medicine stated that not only quacks, but surgeons, apothecaries, and herbalists were forbidden to prescribe any treatment, on the grounds that these practitioners did not know the reasons for their prescriptions; ignorant of causes, they acted at random.1 The investigation of causes required the knowledge of physiological and pathological processes, both in general and in the detail of particular cases. Thus, in 1271, the Parisian Faculty of Medicine subjected every prescription to its masters' approval. During the long proceedings that the Faculty instituted against illegal practitioners in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the place of etiology was at the centre of the debates. In 1322, on the occasion of the condemnation of Jacqueline Felicie de Almannia, the danger presented by “introducing into sick bodies potions, food or clysters, while the cause of the disease is not known either through books or medical art”2 was firmly reasserted.
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