ILP; Participation MOOC

This MOOC was very interesting! I participated in a lesson on The History of Medieval Medicine through Jewish Manuscripts. It related to my major which is a plus, the lecturer was very easy to understand and did a great job explaining every step of the document/codex from the beginning. My lecturer was Tzvi Langermann he teaches currently at Bar IIan University, he also studied and received his degrees at Harvard. This particular codex has 3 books with in it and was written in Arabic which was the popular language during the 10th - 12th century, it had the status English does today. The first book was never translated to Hebrew or Latin. However it was used all over the area because it was very handy. It had diseases listed/beginning from the head and continued down to the toes and also listed possible cures. This book was also heavily annotated. The next book is about the heart and what drugs were used and then the third is about practice, pathology and anatomy this was more like a textbook than a guide or symptom checker. Langermann concludes with how the book is composed, how its bound and that the analysis of these types of books never ends because every time you read them you find something new.

First Test I took
Dr. Langermann

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