拜占庭对古典医学的继承和发展

Byzantine's Inheritance from and Development of the Ancient Medicine

拜占庭医学一方面遵从古典医学经典的要义,继承了古典医学思想、医疗体系和诊治方法的传统;另一方面结合帝国国情和文化特点予以发展,在病理机制、治疗方式、医学理念和药学研究等方面成果卓著,形成了不少颇有影响的医学著作。拜占庭医院的诞生则标志着拜占庭医学在公共卫生领域达到了欧洲同期的最高水平;同时,拜占庭医院的管理理念和规章制度亦成为西方近代医疗机构形成中所效仿的模式。

The Byzantine medicine accepted the gist of its ancient counterpart by inheriting the latter's system of thought,medical institutions,diagnosis and treatment.Meanwhile,the Empire saw a number of important improvements on ancient pathology,practices,and pharmaceutics,crystalizing them as many valuable books.The establishment of hospitals in Byzantine put the Empire on a par with its contemporaneous Europe in terms of sustaining public health.The management and regulation of hospitals by the Empire also became a model for early modern Western medical institutions.