Beaton medical kindred - Wikipedia
The Beaton medical kindred, also known as Clann Meic-bethad and Clan MacBeth, was a Scottish kindred of professional physicians that practised medicine in the classical Gaelic tradition from the Middle Ages to the Early en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaton_me…
The Beaton medical kindred, also known as Clann Meic-bethad and Clan MacBeth, was a Scottish kindred of professional physicians that practised medicine in the classical Gaelic tradition from the Middle Ages to the Early en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaton_me…
Modern Era.
By the seventeenth century, most of the seventeen or so families within the kindred had adopted the surname Beaton, although two used the surname Bethune. Partly as a result members of the medical kindred mistakenly came to think of themselves as descended from the
By the seventeenth century, most of the seventeen or so families within the kindred had adopted the surname Beaton, although two used the surname Bethune. Partly as a result members of the medical kindred mistakenly came to think of themselves as descended from the
Bethunes of Balfour, the principal branch of the aforesaid Bethune or Beaton family.
Like other learned Gaelic families, members of the kindred copied and compiled manuscripts.
The most substantial surviving example of such a work compiled by the kindred is an early sixteenth-
Like other learned Gaelic families, members of the kindred copied and compiled manuscripts.
The most substantial surviving example of such a work compiled by the kindred is an early sixteenth-
century Gaelic translation of Gordonus' Lilium medicinae, the largest Gaelic manuscript in Scotland.
There have been as many as seventy-six physicians of the kindred identified between the years 1300 and 1750.
Members were employed by every Scottish monarch between Robert I,
There have been as many as seventy-six physicians of the kindred identified between the years 1300 and 1750.
Members were employed by every Scottish monarch between Robert I,
King of Scotland (died 1329) and Charles I, King of Scotland (died 1649), and patronised by numerous Scottish clans such as the Frasers of Lovat, MacDonald Lords of the Isles, the MacLeans of Duart, the MacLeods of Dunvegan, and the Munros of Foulis.
By the eighteenth century,
By the eighteenth century,
the family ceased to produce hereditary physicians.
The last died in 1714, described as "the only scholar of his race".
Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, Latin: The Salernitan Rule of Health (commonly known as Flos medicinae or Lilium medicinae - The Flower of Medicine, The Lily
The last died in 1714, described as "the only scholar of his race".
Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, Latin: The Salernitan Rule of Health (commonly known as Flos medicinae or Lilium medicinae - The Flower of Medicine, The Lily
of Medicine) is a medieval didactic poem in hexameter verse. It is allegedly a work of the Schola Medica Salernitana (from which its other name Flos medicinae scholae Salerni is derived).
The Regimen is believed to have been written in the 12th or 13th century, although some
The Regimen is believed to have been written in the 12th or 13th century, although some
sources estimate this to have been as early as 1050. Even though the book bears the name of the famous medieval medical school, it is not certain if it originated there. According to tradition, the poem was written for the benefit of Robert Curthose. The true author is unknown,
but it is commonly attributed to John of Milan.
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