Article: Notes on medical scholarship and the broad intellectual milieu in sixteenth-century Portugal.(analysis of Dialogo da perfeycam e partes que sam necessarias ao bom medico )

The Portuguese sixteenth-century work on medical deontology, Dialogo da perfeycam e partes que sam necessarias ao bom medico of Jeronimo de Miranda, consists of a conversation between a physician and an elderly professor of rhetoric and Greek. In the central part of the dialogue both characters agree that a competent doctor should be highly proficient in Latin, Greek and Arabic in order to read authoritative texts in the original. These included works by Celsus, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna, Aristotle, Plato, Rhazes and Averroes. The two characters of the dialogue also agree that a proficient physician should be acquainted with natural philosophy, astrology, arithmetic, ...