medical treatises, early modern Irish, medieval principles of health and disease, adaptation in irish translations, Bernardus de Gordonio
The underlying principles for seeking to attain a patient's health, and preventing disease, go far back to Hippocrates and Galen, but they prevailed into the early modern period.
This paper explains the concepts and theories behind what -- for us -- may be an impenetrable and strange thicket of unscientific reasoning, but what was a careful (if flawed) system of medicine adhered to by many generations of medical practitioners,