—Physician to popes and kings, reformer of the teaching of medicine at the beginning of the fourteenth century, prolific writer, diplomat and theologian in search of a new Christianity.— Arnau de Vilanova is undoubtedly one of the most appealing...
—The synthesis of classical medicine carried out by Galen and his followers succeeded in creating the model that prevailed in the Western world until the eighteenth century.— Few figures dedicated to the study of the human body, both in health and...
