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Dante's knowledge of the various fields of medieval medicine, in terms of disease patterns and pathogenetic hypotheses, is well known. At that time, Dante acquired this knowledge by attending, directly or indirectly, the lessons of Taddeo Alderotti, one of the founders of the Medical School in Bologna. Regarding Dante's attitude towards medicine and science in general, in this paper has been considered the episode of Pier della Vigna, presented in the thirteenth canto of the Inferno. This concern how the origin of the cries and lamentations is established, which come from the weeds into which the suicides had turned. A parallel has also been drawn between Dante's approach and the methods used today in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases using Evidence-Based Medicine. Moreover, some hypotheses have also been ventured about the origin of this parallelism.
但丁对中世纪医学各个领域的知识，比如疾病模式和致病假说，是众所周知的。当时，但丁通过直接或间接地参加塔迪欧·阿尔德罗蒂的课程获得了这些知识，他是博洛尼亚医学院的创始人之一。关于但丁对医学和科学的总体态度，本文考虑了地狱篇第十三章中出现的Pier della Vigna插曲。这涉及到哭声和哀号的起源是如何确定的，这些哭声和哀号来自自杀者变成的杂草。但丁的方法和今天使用循证医学诊断和治疗疾病的方法也有相似之处。此外，关于这种平行的起源也有一些大胆的假设。
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