Michael Italikos

Michael Italicus or Italikos (Greek: Μιχαήλ Ἰταλικός; fl. 1136–66) was a Byzantine medical instructor (didaskalos iatron) at the Pantokrator hospital that had been established by Emperor John II Komnenos (r. 1118–43) in 1136.[1] Pantokrator was a medical centre, at which Italicus lectured and explained physicians Hippocrates (460–370 BC) and Galen (129–200), and illustrated diseases through patient cases.[1] His pupil Theodore Prodromos described smallpox.[1] Between 1147 and 1166 he served as the Archbishop of Philippopolis.[2]

He wrote a monody on he death of Andronikos Komnenos (son of Alexios I).

References

  1. 1 2 3 Plinio Prioreschi (1996). A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine. Horatius Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-888456-04-2.
  2. ↑ M. Loos (30 June 1974). Dualist Heresy in the Middle Ages. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 102. ISBN 978-90-247-1673-9.


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