Medieval Notions of Cancer: Malignancy and Metaphor
- 1 December 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Project MUSE in Bulletin of the History of Medicine
- Vol. 72 (4) , 609-637
- https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.1998.0212
Abstract
In medieval medicine, “pathology” meant the recognition of disease. It consisted of a definition, a classification, an identification of causes, and a description of their effects.Keywords
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