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Benevenutus Grassus

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27:, the only published record of his work. Based on his work, it is believed that he lived most of his life in Italy but had travelled to northern Africa. His work was translated and incorporated into many European language works and included instructions for cataract treatment. The earliest known English work that incorporates his teachings is 54:
which had connections to Arab medicine. The text claims that Grassus learnt from a variety of sources and practiced by travelling to various places both in the temperate and tropic areas. He quotes Hippocrates, Galen, Johannicius and Hunayn bin Ishaq of Baghdad.
19:(also called Benevenutus Grapheus/Crassus or Benvenuto Grassi of Jerusalem) (c. 1200-c. 1290) was a medieval eye doctor who lived in the second half of the thirteenth century and is known for his treatise on the treatment of eye disorders 226: 236: 231: 35:(1583). The oldest printed version of his book is edited by Severino of Ferrara from 1474. A copy of this was translated into English by 185:
Rubin, Jonathan; Linde, Cornelia (2014-05-04). "Western Medicine for the Masters of Damascus: Benvenutus Grapheus's Experimenta".
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Meyerhof, Max (1937). "Review: Memorandum Book of a Tenth-Century Oculist by Casey A. Wood".
194: 159: 122: 114: 76: 103:"A Thirteenth-Century Ophthalmologist, Benvenutus Grassus: His Treatise and its Survival" 127: 102: 47:(" The Oculists' Memorandum Book ") which was probably published in the 11th century. 220: 28: 198: 118: 206: 136: 50:
A study of a German translation has suggested that Grassus studied at the
77:"Benvenutus Grapheus of Jerusalem, an oculist in the era of the Crusades" 39:
in 1929. The work of Benvenutus Grassus also made use of the works of
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Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science
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Philip Barrough
Casey Albert Wood
Ali Ibn Isa
Salernitan school of medicine


"Benvenutus Grapheus of Jerusalem, an oculist in the era of the Crusades"
"A Thirteenth-Century Ophthalmologist, Benvenutus Grassus: His Treatise and its Survival"
doi
10.1177/014107689809100119
PMC
1296431
PMID
9536148
doi
10.1086/347219
JSTOR
25023
doi
10.1080/09503110.2014.915108
ISSN
0950-3110
Categories
13th-century Italian physicians
13th-century Italian writers
13th-century writers in Latin

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