出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：The high economic and social value of falcons, hounds and horses in the late Middle Ages led to the development of a specialized medical practice to keep them healthy and treat their diseases. A parallel production of technical works coded this medical knowledge, generating a specific doctrinal body. From the analysis of these treatises it is possible to fi nd close relationships with the current medical doctrine –galenism–, that go beyond the sharing of theories on humors and qualities. The importance of maintaining health and the conceptual instruments to achieve this aim, the precedence of diet as a therapeutic tool over drugs or surgery, treating by applying opposite, techniques of humor evacuation, examination of superfl uities as diagnostic tool for diseases and the use of the same drugs are some of the aspects on which physicians, hippiatrists, falconers and huntsmen agreed.
