Byzantine medicine

541–549 AD pandemic in the Byzantine Empire, later northern Europe

aspect of history

book by Pedanius Dioscorides

common medical practices of the Byzantine Empire

thumb|upright=1.4|Tile () from a ceiling in Dura-Europus with image of Heliodoros, an actuarius. Actuarius or actarius, rendered in Greek as aktouarios (), was the title applied to officials of varying functions in the late Roman and Byzantine empires.

The Hippiatrica () is a Byzantine compilation of ancient Greek texts, mainly excerpts, dedicated to the care and healing of the horse. The texts were probably compiled in the fifth or sixth century AD by an unknown editor. Currently, the compilation is preserved in five recensions in 22 manuscripts (containing 25 copies) ranging in date from the 10th to the 16th centuries AD.

Kitab al-Hawi or Al-Hawi or Kitāb al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb translated as The Comprehensive Book on Medicine is an extensive medical encyclopedia authored by the Persian polymath Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865–925), commonly known in the West as Rhazes in the 10th century. This monumental work is a compendium of Greek, Syrian, and early Arabic medical knowledge, as well as some Indian medical practices.