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The following is a list of post-classical physicians who were known to have practised, contributed, or theorised about medicine in some form between the 5th and 15th century CE.

Name Gender[1] Related periods Century Ethnicity Known for
Theophilus Protospatharius Man Middle Ages 7th century CE Greek
Palladius Man Middle Ages 6th century CE Greek
Marcellus Empiricus Man Late antiquity 4th–5th century CE Roman Author of pharmacological compendium De medicamentis
Caelius Aurelianus Man Late antiquity 5th century CE Greco-Roman Medical translator.
Adamantius Judaeus Man Late antiquity 5th century CE Greco-Roman Jew
Benedict of Nursia Man Middle Ages 6th century CE Italian Founder of "monastic medicine"[1]
Alexander of Tralles[2] Man Middle Ages 6th-7th century CE Byzantine
Aetius of Amida[2][3] Man Middle Ages 6th century CE Byzantine Greek
Stephanus of Athens[4][5] Man Middle Ages 6th-7th century CE Byzantine Greek
Raban Gamaliel VI Man Late antiquity 4th-5th century CE Roman Jew
Isidore of Seville Man Middle Ages 6th-7th century CE Byzantine
Paul of Aegina[4][2] Man Middle Ages 7th century CE Byzantine Wrote Medical Compendium in Seven Books
Leo Itrosophist Man Middle Ages 8th-9th century CE Byzantine Wrote "Epitome of Medicine".
Al-Kindi Man Islamic Golden Age 9th century CE Arab Author of De Gradibus
Yuhanna ibn Masawaih Man Islamic Golden Age 8th-9th century CE Persian Personal physician to four Abbasid caliphs.[6]
Hunayn ibn Ishaq Man Islamic Golden Age 9th century CE Arab Christian
al-Tabari Man Islamic Golden Age 9th century CE Persian Produced one of the first encyclopedia of medicine titled Firdous al-Hikmah ("Paradise of wisdom").[7]
Theodosius Romanus Man Islamic Golden Age 9th century CE Syriac Christian
Ishaq ibn Hunayn Man Islamic Golden Age 10th century CE Arab Christian
Yahya ibn Sarafyun Man Islamic Golden Age 9th century CE Syriac Christian
al-Razi Man Islamic Golden Age 9th-10th century CE Persian Produce work in pediatrics and makes the first clear distinction between smallpox and measles in his al-Hawi.[8]
Isaac Israeli ben Solomon Man Islamic Golden Age 9th-10th century CE Egyptian Jew
Shabbethai Donnolo[9] Man Middle Ages 10th century CE Graeco-Italian Jew
al-Tamimi Man Islamic Golden Age 10th century CE Arab
al-Majusi Man Islamic Golden Age 10th century CE Persian Famous for the Kitab al-Maliki or Complete Book of the Medical Art, his textbook on medicine and psychology.
al-Zahrawi Man Islamic Golden Age 10th-11th century CE Arab Andalusian Founder of early surgical and medical instruments, writing Kitab al-Tasrif.
Ibn Butlan Man Islamic Golden Age 11th century CE Arab Christian Writer of Taqwīm as‑Siḥḥa [romanization: Tacuinum Sanitatis] or maintenance of health.
Michael Psellos Man Middle Ages 11th century CE Byzantine Greek
Ibn al-Haytham Man Islamic Golden Age 10th-11th century CE Arab
Ibn Sina Man Islamic Golden Age 10th-11th century CE Persian Writer of Qanun-e dâr Tâb or The Canon of Medicine.
Simeon Seth[2] Man Middle Ages 11th-12 century CE Byzantine Jew
Constantine the African Man Middle Ages 11th century CE Unclear
Anna Komnene Woman Middle Ages 11th-12 century CE Byzantine
Trota of Salerno Woman Middle Ages 12th century CE Unclear
Rahere Man Middle Ages 12th century CE Anglo-Norman Founded the Priory of the Hospital of St Bartholomew in 1123.
Stephen of Pisa Man Middle Ages 12th century CE Italian Translated works of Hali Abbas (the al-Kitab al-Maliki, by Ali Abbas al-Majusi), translated around 1127 into Latin as Liber regalis dispositionis.
Ibn Zuhr Man Islamic Golden Age 11th-12 century CE Arab Andalusian
Ibn Rushd Man Islamic Golden Age 12th century CE Arab Andalusian
Matthaeus Platearius Man Middle Ages 12th century CE Unclear
Pope Innocent III Man Middle Ages 12th-13th century CE Italian Organized the hospital of Santo Spirito at Rome inspiring others all over Europe
Ibn an-Nafis Man Islamic Golden Age 13th century CE Arab Suggests that the right and left ventricles of the heart are separate and discovers the pulmonary circulation and coronary circulation.[10]
Ibn al-Baytar Man Islamic Golden Age 12th-13th century CE Arab Andalusian Wrote on botany and pharmacy, studied animal anatomy and medicine veterinary medicine.[10]
Roger Bacon Man Middle Ages 13th century CE English Ideas on experimental science and convex lens spectacles for treating long-sightedness.
Pietro d'Abano Man Middle Ages 13th-14th century CE Italian Professor of medicine at the University of Padua.[11]
Joannes Actuarius Man Middle Ages 13th-14th century CE Byzantine Wrote the last great compendium of Byzantine medicine[12]
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Man Islamic Golden Age 13th-14th century CE Unclear
William of Saliceto Man Middle Ages 13th century CE Italian
Henri de Mondeville Man Middle Ages 13th-14th century CE French
Mondino de Luzzi Man Middle Ages 13th-14th century CE Italian carried out the first systematic human dissections since Herophilus of Chalcedon and Erasistratus of Ceos 1500 years earlier.[13][14]
Guy de Chauliac Man Middle Ages 14th century CE French
John Arderne Man Middle Ages 14th century CE English
Heinrich von Pfolspeundt Man Middle Ages 15th century CE German

Notes

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1.^ Assumed gender.

References

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  2. ^ a b c d Prioreschi, Plinio (2001). A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine. Horatius Press. ISBN 9781888456042. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  3. ^ Colón, A. R.; Colón, P. A. (January 1999). Nurturing children: a history of pediatrics. Greenwood Press. p. 61. ISBN 9780313310805. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  4. ^ a b Athens.), Stephanus (of; Dickson, Keith M. (1998). Stephanus the Philosopher and Physician: Commentary on Galen's Therapeutics to Glaucon. BRILL. ISBN 9789004109353. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
  5. ^ Nutton, Vivian (2005-07-19). Ancient Medicine. Taylor & Francis US. ISBN 9780415368483. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
  6. ^ Loudon, Irvine (2002-03-07). Western Medicine: An Illustrated History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199248131. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  7. ^ Meyerhof, Max (1931). "`Alî at-Tabarî's Paradise of Wisdom, one of the oldest Arabic Compendiums of Medicine". Isis. 16 (1): 6–54. doi:10.1086/346582. ISSN 0021-1753.
  8. ^ Colón, A. R.; Colón, P. A. (January 1999). Nurturing children: a history of pediatrics. Greenwood Press. p. 61. ISBN 9780313310805. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  9. ^ Graetz, Heinrich; Bloch, Philipp (1894). History of the Jews. Jewish Publication Society of America. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
  10. ^ a b Loudon, Irvine (2002-03-07). Western Medicine: An Illustrated History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199248131. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  11. ^ French, Roger (2003-02-20). Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521809771. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
  12. ^ Prioreschi, Plinio (2001). A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine. Horatius Press. ISBN 9781888456042. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  13. ^ Crombie, Alistair Cameron (1959). The History of Science from Augustine to Galileo. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486288505.
  14. ^ Zimmerman, Leo M.; Veith, Ilza (1993-08-01). Great Ideas in the History of Surgery. Norman Publishing. ISBN 9780930405533. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
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