List of post-classical physicians

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The following is a list of post-classical physicians who were known to have practised, contributed, or theorised about medicine in some form between the 5th and 15th century CE.

NameGender Related periodsCenturyEthnicityKnown for
Theophilus Protospatharius Man Middle Ages 7th century CEGreek
Palladius Man Middle Ages 6th century CEGreek
Marcellus Empiricus Man Late antiquity 4th–5th century CERomanAuthor of pharmacological compendium De medicamentis
Caelius Aurelianus Man Late antiquity 5th century CEGreco-RomanMedical translator.
Adamantius Judaeus Man Late antiquity 5th century CEGreco-Roman Jew
Benedict of Nursia Man Middle Ages 6th century CEItalianFounder of "monastic medicine" [1]
Alexander of Tralles [2] Man Middle Ages 6th-7th century CEByzantine
Aetius of Amida [2] [3] Man Middle Ages 6th century CEByzantine Greek
Stephanus of Athens [4] [5] Man Middle Ages 6th-7th century CEByzantine Greek
Raban Gamaliel VI Man Late antiquity 4th-5th century CERoman Jew
Isidore of Seville Man Middle Ages 6th-7th century CEByzantine
Paul of Aegina [4] [2] Man Middle Ages 7th century CEByzantineWrote Medical Compendium in Seven Books
Leo Itrosophist Man Middle Ages 8th-9th century CEByzantineWrote "Epitome of Medicine".
Al-Kindi Man Islamic Golden Age 9th century CEArabAuthor of De Gradibus
Yuhanna ibn Masawaih Man Islamic Golden Age 8th-9th century CEPersianPersonal physician to four Abbasid caliphs. [6]
Hunayn ibn Ishaq Man Islamic Golden Age 9th century CEArab Christian
al-Tabari Man Islamic Golden Age 9th century CEPersianProduced one of the first encyclopedia of medicine titled Firdous al-Hikmah ("Paradise of wisdom"). [7]
Theodosius Romanus Man Islamic Golden Age 9th century CESyriac Christian
Ishaq ibn Hunayn Man Islamic Golden Age 10th century CEArab Christian
Yahya ibn Sarafyun Man Islamic Golden Age 9th century CESyriac Christian
al-Razi Man Islamic Golden Age 9th-10th century CEPersianProduce work in pediatrics and makes the first clear distinction between smallpox and measles in his al-Hawi . [8]
Isaac Israeli ben Solomon Man Islamic Golden Age 9th-10th century CEEgyptian Jew
Shabbethai Donnolo [9] Man Middle Ages 10th century CEGraeco-Italian Jew
al-Tamimi Man Islamic Golden Age 10th century CEArab
al-Majusi Man Islamic Golden Age 10th century CEPersianFamous for the Kitab al-Maliki or Complete Book of the Medical Art , his textbook on medicine and psychology.
al-Zahrawi Man Islamic Golden Age 10th-11th century CEArab Andalusian Founder of early surgical and medical instruments, writing Kitab al-Tasrif.
Ibn Butlan Man Islamic Golden Age 11th century CEArab ChristianWriter of Taqwīm as‑Siḥḥa [romanization: Tacuinum Sanitatis] or maintenance of health.
Michael Psellos Man Middle Ages 11th century CEByzantine Greek
Ibn al-Haytham Man Islamic Golden Age 10th-11th century CEArab
Ibn Sina Man Islamic Golden Age 10th-11th century CEPersianWriter of Qanun-e dâr Tâb or The Canon of Medicine.
Simeon Seth [2] Man Middle Ages 11th-12 century CEByzantine Jew
Constantine the African Man Middle Ages 11th century CEUnclear
Anna Komnene Woman Middle Ages 11th-12 century CEByzantine
Trota of Salerno Woman Middle Ages 12th century CEUnclear
Rahere Man Middle Ages 12th century CE Anglo-Norman Founded the Priory of the Hospital of St Bartholomew in 1123.
Stephen of Pisa Man Middle Ages 12th century CEItalianTranslated works of Hali Abbas (the al-Kitab al-Maliki, by Ali Abbas al-Majusi), translated around 1127 into Latin as Liber regalis dispositionis.
Ibn Zuhr Man Islamic Golden Age 11th-12 century CEArab Andalusian
Ibn Rushd Man Islamic Golden Age 12th century CEArab Andalusian
Matthaeus Platearius Man Middle Ages 12th century CEUnclear
Pope Innocent III Man Middle Ages 12th-13th century CEItalianOrganized the hospital of Santo Spirito at Rome inspiring others all over Europe
Ibn an-Nafis Man Islamic Golden Age 13th century CEArabSuggests that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separate and discovers the pulmonary circulation and coronary circulation. [10]
Ibn al-Baytar Man Islamic Golden Age 12th-13th century CEArab Andalusian Wrote on botany and pharmacy, studied animal anatomy and medicine veterinary medicine. [10]
Roger Bacon Man Middle Ages 13th century CE English Ideas on experimental science and convex lens spectacles for treating long-sightedness.
Pietro d'AbanoMan Middle Ages 13th-14th century CEItalianProfessor of medicine at the University of Padua. [11]
Joannes Actuarius Man Middle Ages 13th-14th century CEByzantineWrote the last great compendium of Byzantine medicine [12]
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Man Islamic Golden Age 13th-14th century CEUnclear
William of Saliceto Man Middle Ages 13th century CEItalian
Henri de Mondeville Man Middle Ages 13th-14th century CEFrench
Mondino de Luzzi Man Middle Ages 13th-14th century CEItaliancarried out the first systematic human dissections since Herophilus of Chalcedon and Erasistratus of Ceos 1500 years earlier. [13] [14]
Guy de Chauliac Man Middle Ages 14th century CEFrench
John Arderne Man Middle Ages 14th century CEEnglish
Heinrich von Pfolspeundt Man Middle Ages 15th century CEGerman

Notes

1. ^ Assumed gender.

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