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JAMA. 1968;206(12):2736.

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Isidore of Seville, also known as Isidorus Hispalensis, authored an encyclopedic work, which served for generations as a text for those who cultivated medicine as a scholastic discipline within the church.¹ Neither the site nor the date of his birth is known. His parents were Catholic, and, although he was never a monk, he remained unmarried and sympathetic toward monastic life. His parents died when he was young, and his education was entrusted to his brother, Leander, Bishop of Seville, who had established a cathedral school. Here Isidore acquired a knowledge of Latin and Hebrew and probably some Greek. After Leander died in 599, Isidore succeeded him as Bishop and remained in the hierarchy through the supervision of the fourth Council of Toledo convened in 633.

Following the decline of Roman civilization, the eradication of the Empire by the Goths, and the widespread disappearance of learning in Europe in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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