In a message dated 97-07-07 09:37:24 EDT, you write:
> Arabic mediecal works were available in the later Middle Ages. I have
> seen manuscript copies of Avicenna. Aristotle's scientific works
> were known too. Albertus Magnus wrote on the life sciences. While
> medical knowledge progressed later, to describe the period as largely
> ignorant of the life sciences would be erroneous.
>
> tom izbicki
>
I was referring to the earlier part of the middle ages, the time before the
Arabic medical treatises became available. Sorry if was unclear. Or maybe
should have said it was less informed than later periods.
pat sloane
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