Victus Ordine Constituto: la alimentación en la medicina de Amato Lusitano, una aproximación / Victus ordine constituto: an approach towards diet in Amatus Lusitanus medicine

Parte de la tarea médica del portugués João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco, pseudónimo de Amato Lusitano (1511-1568), consiste en atender o modificar la dieta de sus pacientes. A través de las prescripciones de la Centuria Tertia, uno de los libros que componen su obra Curationum Medicinalium Centuriae, podemos ver el amplio número de alimentos utilizados con fines terapéuticos, algunos realmente costosos. También conocemos cómo la atención de este médico por la dieta exige la obediencia del paciente.(AU)

The medical practice of João Rodrigues de Castelo Branco, also known as Amatus Lusitanus (1511-1568), pays particular attention to the establishment or modification of the dietary customs of his patients. The prescriptions included in the third volume (Centuria Tertia) of his book Curationum Medicinalium Centuriae show the wide range of food products used for therapy purposes, some of them really expensive. It is also remarkable that Amatus demands obedience to his dietary regulations from his patients.(AU)

[The medical ethics of Amatus Lusitanus].

The authors of this study discovered in annals of history the "Oath" of the Portuguese physician Amatus Lusitanus (1511-1568) and translated it into Russian for the first time. The mentioned historical document represents a sort of Code of Honor of European physician of XVI century that both took in ethical norms of Hippocrates and determined one's own rules of doctoring. The ethical principles of Amatus are akin Hippocrates' ones and they are in parallel on seven positions. However, the "Oath" of A. Lusitanus also includes other aspects of medical ethics that are completely organic to the very personality of author and distinguish themselves by courage and novelty for its time. To mention reward of physician for one's labor, difficulties and hardships falling on representatives of medical profession, theme of glorification and exaltation of physician and and medical tolerance. Amatus Lusitanus can be considered as a precursor of initiation of tolerance in European medical ethics that he anticipated with his "Oath".