[The Anonymus Londinensis and medicine of South Italy]. / L'Anonyme de Londres et la médecine d'Italie du Sud.

ABSTRACT

Can the five doctors from Southern Italy and Sicily, whose theories are described in the famous Anonymus Londinensis (P. Lond. 137), be said to have belonged to an actual 'school of medicine'? Although this article stops short of such a conclusion, it is indicated that, positioned on the fringe of the West's scientific world, they remained aloof from the new medicine, embodied by Hippocrates.