In many ways Hildegard von Bingen was honoured in 1979 in memory of the 800th anniversary of her death. Hildegard was not only the mystical visionary and prophetess of the middle ages, she was for her time also a practical thinking physician with an enormous scientific knowledge. In her books "physica" and "causae et curae" numerous clinical pictures of dermatological diseases are described as well as therapeutical advices given which offer a wide insight into the knowledge of skin diseases of this period of monastery medicine.
BT - Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift fur Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6995404?dopt=Abstract DA - 1980 Jul IS - 7 J2 - Hautarzt LA - ger N2 -In many ways Hildegard von Bingen was honoured in 1979 in memory of the 800th anniversary of her death. Hildegard was not only the mystical visionary and prophetess of the middle ages, she was for her time also a practical thinking physician with an enormous scientific knowledge. In her books "physica" and "causae et curae" numerous clinical pictures of dermatological diseases are described as well as therapeutical advices given which offer a wide insight into the knowledge of skin diseases of this period of monastery medicine.
PY - 1980 SP - 381 EP - 3 T2 - Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift fur Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete TI - [Dermatological aspects of Hildegard von Bingen's work]. VL - 31 SN - 0017-8470 ER -