List of post-classical physicians

{{Short description|List of post-classical physicians between the 6th and 16th century CE}}

{{main|List of physicians}}

The following is a list of post-classical physicians who were known to have practised, contributed, or theorised about medicine in some form between the 5th and 15th century CE.

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!Name

!Gender{{ref|a}}

!Related periods

!Century

!Ethnicity

!Known for

Theophilus Protospatharius

|Man

|Middle Ages

|7th century CE

|Greek

|

Palladius

|Man

|Middle Ages

|6th century CE

|Greek

|

Marcellus Empiricus

|Man

|Late antiquity

|4th–5th century CE

|Roman

|Author of pharmacological compendium De medicamentis

Caelius Aurelianus

|Man

|Late antiquity

|5th century CE

|Greco-Roman

|Medical translator.

Adamantius Judaeus

|Man

|Late antiquity

|5th century CE

|Greco-Roman Jew

|

Benedict of Nursia

|Man

|Middle Ages

|6th century CE

|Italian

|Founder of "monastic medicine"{{cite book |last=Prioreschi |first=Plinio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wb_UMcH5C7EC&pg=PA383 |title=A History of Medicine: Medieval Medicine |publisher=Edwin Mellen Press |year=1996 |isbn=9781888456059 |accessdate=28 December 2012}}

Alexander of Tralles{{cite book |last=Prioreschi |first=Plinio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q0IIpnov0BsC |title=A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine |publisher=Horatius Press |year=2001 |isbn=9781888456042 |accessdate=10 September 2012}}

|Man

|Middle Ages

|6th-7th century CE

|Byzantine

|

Aetius of Amida{{cite book |last1=Colón |first1=A. R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i8NsAAAAMAAJ |title=Nurturing children: a history of pediatrics |last2=Colón |first2=P. A. |date=January 1999 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=9780313310805 |page=61 |accessdate=19 October 2012}}

|Man

|Middle Ages

|6th century CE

|Byzantine Greek

|

Stephanus of Athens{{cite book |last1=Athens.) |first1=Stephanus (of |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2rL22CjOTgC&pg=PP15 |title=Stephanus the Philosopher and Physician: Commentary on Galen's Therapeutics to Glaucon |last2=Dickson |first2=Keith M. |publisher=BRILL |year=1998 |isbn=9789004109353 |accessdate=9 December 2012}}{{cite book |last=Nutton |first=Vivian |author-link=Vivian Nutton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PREr9_rojrQC |title=Ancient Medicine |date=2005-07-19 |publisher=Taylor & Francis US |isbn=9780415368483 |accessdate=19 August 2012}}

|Man

|Middle Ages

|6th-7th century CE

|Byzantine Greek

|

Raban Gamaliel VI

|Man

|Late antiquity

|4th-5th century CE

|Roman Jew

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Isidore of Seville

|Man

|Middle Ages

|6th-7th century CE

|Byzantine

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Paul of Aegina

|Man

|Middle Ages

|7th century CE

|Byzantine

|Wrote Medical Compendium in Seven Books

Leo Itrosophist

|Man

|Middle Ages

|8th-9th century CE

|Byzantine

|Wrote "Epitome of Medicine".

Al-Kindi

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|9th century CE

|Arab

|Author of De Gradibus

Yuhanna ibn Masawaih

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|8th-9th century CE

|Persian

|Personal physician to four Abbasid caliphs.{{cite book |last=Loudon |first=Irvine |author-link=Irvine Loudon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dJEWZq0bq8kC |title=Western Medicine: An Illustrated History |date=2002-03-07 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199248131 |accessdate=29 August 2012}}

Hunayn ibn Ishaq

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|9th century CE

|Arab Christian

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al-Tabari

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|9th century CE

|Persian

|Produced one of the first encyclopedia of medicine titled Firdous al-Hikmah ("Paradise of wisdom").{{Cite journal |last=Meyerhof |first=Max |date=1931 |title=`Alî at-Tabarî's Paradise of Wisdom, one of the oldest Arabic Compendiums of Medicine |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/346582 |journal=Isis |language=en |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=6–54 |doi=10.1086/346582 |issn=0021-1753|url-access=subscription }}

Theodosius Romanus

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|9th century CE

|Syriac Christian

|

Ishaq ibn Hunayn

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|10th century CE

|Arab Christian

|

Yahya ibn Sarafyun

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|9th century CE

|Syriac Christian

|

al-Razi

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|9th-10th century CE

|Persian

|Produce work in pediatrics and makes the first clear distinction between smallpox and measles in his al-Hawi.{{cite book |last1=Colón |first1=A. R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i8NsAAAAMAAJ |title=Nurturing children: a history of pediatrics |last2=Colón |first2=P. A. |date=January 1999 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=9780313310805 |page=61 |accessdate=19 October 2012}}

Isaac Israeli ben Solomon

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|9th-10th century CE

|Egyptian Jew

|

Shabbethai Donnolo{{cite book |last1=Graetz |first1=Heinrich |author-link=Heinrich Graetz |url=https://archive.org/details/historyjews02bochgoog |title=History of the Jews |last2=Bloch |first2=Philipp |publisher=Jewish Publication Society of America |year=1894 |accessdate=30 October 2012}}

|Man

|Middle Ages

|10th century CE

|Graeco-Italian Jew

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al-Tamimi

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|10th century CE

|Arab

|

al-Majusi

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|10th century CE

|Persian

|Famous for the Kitab al-Maliki or Complete Book of the Medical Art, his textbook on medicine and psychology.

al-Zahrawi

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|10th-11th century CE

|Arab Andalusian

|Founder of early surgical and medical instruments, writing Kitab al-Tasrif.

Ibn Butlan

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|11th century CE

|Arab Christian

|Writer of Taqwīm as‑Siḥḥa [romanization: Tacuinum Sanitatis] or maintenance of health.

Michael Psellos

|Man

|Middle Ages

|11th century CE

|Byzantine Greek

|

Ibn al-Haytham

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|10th-11th century CE

|Arab

|

Ibn Sina

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|10th-11th century CE

|Persian

|Writer of Qanun-e dâr Tâb or The Canon of Medicine.

Simeon Seth

|Man

|Middle Ages

|11th-12 century CE

|Byzantine Jew

|

Constantine the African

|Man

|Middle Ages

|11th century CE

|Unclear

|

Anna Komnene

|Woman

|Middle Ages

|11th-12 century CE

|Byzantine

|

Trota of Salerno

|Woman

|Middle Ages

|12th century CE

|Unclear

|

Rahere

|Man

|Middle Ages

|12th century CE

|Anglo-Norman

|Founded the Priory of the Hospital of St Bartholomew in 1123.

Stephen of Pisa

|Man

|Middle Ages

|12th century CE

|Italian

|Translated works of Hali Abbas (the al-Kitab al-Maliki, by Ali Abbas al-Majusi), translated around 1127 into Latin as Liber regalis dispositionis.

Ibn Zuhr

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|11th-12 century CE

|Arab Andalusian

|

Ibn Rushd

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|12th century CE

|Arab Andalusian

|

Matthaeus Platearius

|Man

|Middle Ages

|12th century CE

|Unclear

|

Pope Innocent III

|Man

|Middle Ages

|12th-13th century CE

|Italian

|Organized the hospital of Santo Spirito at Rome inspiring others all over Europe

Ibn an-Nafis

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|13th century CE

|Arab

|Suggests that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separate and discovers the pulmonary circulation and coronary circulation.{{cite book |last=Loudon |first=Irvine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dJEWZq0bq8kC |title=Western Medicine: An Illustrated History |date=2002-03-07 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199248131 |accessdate=29 August 2012}}

Ibn al-Baytar

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|12th-13th century CE

|Arab Andalusian

|Wrote on botany and pharmacy, studied animal anatomy and medicine veterinary medicine.

Roger Bacon

|Man

|Middle Ages

|13th century CE

|English

|Ideas on experimental science and convex lens spectacles for treating long-sightedness.

Pietro d'Abano

|Man

|Middle Ages

|13th-14th century CE

|Italian

|Professor of medicine at the University of Padua.{{cite book |last=French |first=Roger |author-link=Roger French |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MglvQgAACAAJ |title=Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment |date=2003-02-20 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521809771 |accessdate=19 November 2012}}

Joannes Actuarius

|Man

|Middle Ages

|13th-14th century CE

|Byzantine

|Wrote the last great compendium of Byzantine medicine{{cite book |last=Prioreschi |first=Plinio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q0IIpnov0BsC |title=A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine |publisher=Horatius Press |year=2001 |isbn=9781888456042 |accessdate=10 September 2012}}

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

|Man

|Islamic Golden Age

|13th-14th century CE

|Unclear

|

William of Saliceto

|Man

|Middle Ages

|13th century CE

|Italian

|

Henri de Mondeville

|Man

|Middle Ages

|13th-14th century CE

|French

|

Mondino de Luzzi

|Man

|Middle Ages

|13th-14th century CE

|Italian

|carried out the first systematic human dissections since Herophilus of Chalcedon and Erasistratus of Ceos 1500 years earlier.{{cite book |last=Crombie |first=Alistair Cameron |author-link=Alistair Cameron Crombie|title=The History of Science from Augustine to Galileo |publisher=Courier Dover Publications |year=1959 |isbn=9780486288505}}{{cite book |last1=Zimmerman |first1=Leo M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ABbCI7z4UwMC |title=Great Ideas in the History of Surgery |last2=Veith |first2=Ilza |author-link2=Ilza Veith|date=1993-08-01 |publisher=Norman Publishing |isbn=9780930405533 |accessdate=7 December 2012}}

Guy de Chauliac

|Man

|Middle Ages

|14th century CE

|French

|

John Arderne

|Man

|Middle Ages

|14th century CE

|English

|

Heinrich von Pfolspeundt

|Man

|Middle Ages

|15th century CE

|German

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Notes

:1.{{note|a}}Assumed gender.

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