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Arnaldus de Villanova

The famous scholastic physician and scholar Arnaldus de Villanova, also known as Arnaud de Villeneuve or Arnold of Villanova (1240-1311), who came from Spain, taught as a professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier in what is now Languedoc (France). He was one of the most influential and important physicians of his time and had a reputation as a goldsmith alchemist. His medical services were claimed by popes such as Boniface VIII (1235-1303) and kings such as Frederick II (1272-1337). When he travelled to Pope Clement V (c. 1250-1314) on the latter's behalf, he died in a shipwreck. He was intensively concerned with the medicinal properties of wine and its positive effect on health. His work "Liber de Vinis", strongly influenced by the Greek physician Galen (129-216), deals exclusively with this subject.

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