Bernard de Gordon
Bernard de Gordon was a French doctor and professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier from 1285.
In 1296 he wrote the therapeutic work, De decem ingeniis seu indicationibus curandorum morborum. His most important work was the Lilium medicinae, printed in Naples in 1480, Lyon in 1491, and Venice in 1494. It describes plague, tuberculosis, scabies, epilepsy, anthrax, and leprosy. In the 15th century, it was translated into Irish by physician and scribe Cormac Mac Duinnshléibhe.Works
- De regimine acutorum morborum, 1294.
- Liber pronosticorum/Tractatus de crisi et de diebus creticis, 1295.
- De Decem Ingeniis curandorum morborum, 1299.
- Liber de conservatione vitae humanae, 1308.
- Practica seu Lilium medicinae, 1303.
