Giovanni Arcolani

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Giovanni Arcolani (Ionnis Herculani) (* around 1390 ; † 1458 or 1484 ) worked in Bologna from 1412 to 1427 . First he taught logic, later morality, and was finally professor of surgery and medicine (1412–1427). He then also worked in Padua and Ferrara . His teaching is based on the Arabic authors such as Rhazès and Avicenna , on whom he commented extensively.

He wrote a treatise on surgery under the title Practice , which was published in Venice in 1483. This work is the reason that he is considered one of the pioneers in oral surgery . In addition to a description of how to fill caries with gold leaf , his book contains stitches from the instruments used.

He died in Ferrara, according to some sources around 1458, according to others in 1484.

At some universities his comments on Rhazès and Avicenna were compulsory reading, for example at the University of Wittenberg from 1508 .

Printed works (selection)

  • Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā Rāzī: Liber nous ad Almansorem (cum expositione Silani de Nigris). Twelve editions between 1480 and 1504.
  • Expositio in primam fen quarti Canonis Avicennae De febribus. 14 editions between 1489 and 1496.
  • Ionnis Herculani Expositio in primam fen quarti Canonis Avicenne. Four editions between 1496 and 1512.
  • Joannis Herculani Expositio in priam fen quarti Canonis Auicẽne. Six editions between 1496 and 1519.
  • Expositio in primam fen quarti Canonis Avicenne. Eight editions between 1506 and 1512.
  • Expositio perutilis in primam Fen quarti canonis Avicennae. Two editions 1518.
  • Practica Jo. Arcu. Cum duplici tabula; Excellentissimi ta [m] theorice q [etc.] practice physicorum principis Joa [n] nis Arculani, opus doctissimum, in nonum Rasis ad Regem Almansore [m] librum, medicis omnibus perq [etc.] necessarium; Jndice bipartito, abunda [n] tissimo, facillimo, ac ingeniosissimo addito. Three editions 1524.
  • Io. Arculani Omnes, qui proximis seculis scripserunt, medicos longe excellentis opera, quibus ... omnium morborum & symptomatum ... causas & remediorum praesisia exponit, partium quoq situ & constitutione demonstratis. Two editions 1540.
  • Opera, quibus ... omnium morborum & symptomatum ... causas & remediorum praesidia exponit, partium quoque situ & constitutione demonstratis. Two editions 1540.
  • Commentaria in nonum librum Rasis ad regem Almansorem ... Accedit ejusdem opusculum De fluxibus alvi suo loco restitutus: quo nihil adhuc extat a quoquam ea de re aut doctius aut exactius conscriptum. Four editions 1542.
  • De febribus: Ioannis Herculani in Avicennae quarti Canonis Fen primam dilucida, atque optima expositio. 1552.
  • Lucidissima Ioannis Arcolani Veronensis In nonum Raxis ad Regem Almansorem librum expositio Practica universalis, a capite usque ad pedes Medicis omnibus tam teoreticae quàm practicae exercendis perquàm necessaria. 1553.
  • Lucidissima ... In nonum Raxis ad regem Almansorem librum expositio. Practica universalis, a capite usque ad pedes. 1553.
  • De balneis omnia quae extant apud Graecos, Latinos, et Arabas, tam medicos quam quoscunque cȩterarum artium probatos scriptores: qui vel integris libris, vel quoque alio modo hanc materiam tractaverunt: nuper hinc inde accurate redacta & excerpta, atque in unum tandem h. Four editions 1553.
  • Practica ... particularium morborum omnium. Two editions 1557.
  • Practica Ioannis Arcvlani veronensis particvlarivm morborvm omnivm, qui sanè vniuersos, qui proximo seculo in medicina scripsere, longe antecellit. Dum enim his suis Commentarijs, nonum librum Rasis ad Almansorem regem accuratius explicat, partium corporis humani anatomen, morbos, symptomata, causas, ac signa, ea claritate pertractat: medendi vero rationem atq # remedia opus ea arte eáq # copia docet, vt nullum aliud medicinae exercendae addictis, hoc vno esse videatur vtilius. Quod quidem magna diligentia cum probatis exemplaribus collatum, # plurimis locis emendatum, multo ornatius, quàm antea, denuo imprimendum curauimus. Instrumenta vero chirurgica, quæ in opere, hic, illic ab authore citantur, ea sunt ad finem secundi indicis depicta. Non desunt enim indices duo, alter quidem rerum ac vocum scitu dignarum, alter vero capitulorum operis totius. 1557.
  • In Avicennae quarti Canonis Fen primam, in qua de febribus agitur, perspicua, atque optima explicatio. Nunc diligentius, quam antea unquam recognita, ac mendis innumeris expurgata ... Four editions 1559 and 1560.
  • Practica ... particularium morborum omnium, in qua partium corporis humani anatome, morbi, symptomata, causae, ac signa, atque omnino universa medendi ratio, et remedia. Three editions 1560.
  • De febribus ... in Avic [ennae] quarti Canonis fen primam dilucida atque optima expositio, nunc denuo accuratissime expurgata, ac duplici Avicennae textu exornata, altero antiquo, quem sequutus est Arculanus. Two editions 1560.
  • Practica Ioannis Arculani ... particularium morborum omnium: magna diligentia cum probatis exemplaribus collata, et plurimis locis emendata Ioannis Marinelli ... opera ... Indices duo insunt. 1560.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christian Gottlieb Jöcher: General learned lexicon. Volume 5. 1784. Column 1032.
  2. ^ U. Weisser: The Influence of Avicenna on Medical Studies in the West. In: Encyclopaedia Iranica , December 15, 1987 (online version of August 18, 2011).
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Uwe Eckart: History, theory and ethics of medicine. Springer, 2013. ISBN 978-3642349720 . P. 95.
personal data
SURNAME Arcolani, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH around 1390
DATE OF DEATH 1458 or 1484