Fischer Klaus-Dietrich
Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
Medizinhist J. 2010;45(2):165-88.
Next to the late Heinrich Schipperges, Gundolf Keil, M.D. and Ph.D. (Medieval German), ranks as one of the foremost German medical historians of the Western Middle Ages. Among his lasting merits is the publication of the MS Bamb. med. 1, called by him Lorscher Arzneibuch (Lorsch Medical Manual), which was written during the first years of the 9th century in the abbey of Lorsch (near Worms). Keil maintained that this work was not only the first medical book copied in the German-speaking area but that it was also drawn up in Lorsch and contained e.g. an unequivocal statement of Carolingian health policy, and that it referred, for the first time in the early Middle Ages, to the therapeutic uses of penicillin, glycosides, and hypericin (an active ingredient of St John's wort). Such interpretations will be scrutinized and challenged in the following article.
继已故的海因里希·席佩格斯之后，医学博士兼哲学博士贡多夫·凯尔（中世纪德语）堪称中世纪西方最重要的德国医学史学家之一。他的一项持久功绩是出版了被他称为《洛尔施医学手册》的班贝格医学手稿1号，该手册于9世纪初在洛尔施修道院（靠近沃尔姆斯）写成。凯尔坚称，这部著作不仅是德语区抄写的第一本医学书籍，而且是在洛尔施编写的，包含例如对加洛林王朝健康政策的明确阐述，并且在中世纪早期首次提及了青霉素、糖苷和金丝桃素（圣约翰草的一种活性成分）的治疗用途。以下文章将对这些解读进行审视和质疑。
