Calisto, entre amor hereos y una terapia falaz.

Abstract

From a medical perspective, the debate between Calisto and Sempronio (Celestina, Act 1, .scene 2) reflects a crude, unsympatbetic view of the kind of academic medicine practiced by university-educated physicians during the late Middle Ages. Thus, if Sempronio represents the parodie incamation of the highly respected figure of the medicus gratiosus, bis master, Calisto, is a pathetic personification of the noble afflicted by amor hereos. In fact, Rojas succeeds in showing bis readers how ridiculously ineffective certain therapeutic remedies are in the treatment of such a malady. lo justify the conclusions drawn, the writings of different medical authorities (classical, Arabie and Christian) are referred to.