Tag: Brady Lonergan
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Byzantine medical education
Brady LonerganFarmington, Connecticut Institutional medical education in the Eastern Roman Empire bore considerable resemblance to modern medical education in terms of structure and accessibility. During the early Byzantine period, medical instruction could be attained in one of two ways: either through an apprenticeship system, often between father and son; or by completing coursework overseen by…
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Byzantine women in medicine
Brady LonerganFarmington, Connecticut, United States Literary and material evidence includes medical treatises ostensibly written by female physicians and references to female medical writers’ pharmaceutical contributions as early as the late classical period (fifth century BCE) in the Greco-Roman world.1 The second century CE physician Galen cites remedies attributed to Spendousa, Aquilia Secundilla, and Antiochis.2 The…