HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Traditional Medicine, Weakness, Anatomical Pathology
24 Mar 2016
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Excitement of the nerves must be just right. If this amount is not right, disease occurs excessive excitement, blood vessels become spasmodic. If too little excitement, it leads to depression, paralysis, collapse of body functions. Therapy: restoration of the right amount of excitement. He claims that everyone has a certain amount of excitability in them and this is being used up a(cid:272)(cid:272)ordi(cid:374)g to the sti(cid:373)ulatio(cid:374). (cid:862)ele(cid:373)a(cid:374)ta medi(cid:272)i(cid:374)ae(cid:863), asthe(cid:374)ia (cid:894)too little e(cid:454)(cid:272)ite(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:895) a(cid:374)d. He tried to quantify the effect of this therapy; how many degrees of stimulation are added of distra(cid:272)ted. He did(cid:374)"t reall(cid:455) (cid:373)easure the(cid:373), (cid:271)ut it (cid:449)as (cid:373)ore (cid:271)(cid:455) guessi(cid:374)g (cid:449)hile interacting with a patient. Medical world turned away from system theory because of him. Part-time medical experts (in a village setting: priest; self-proclaimed folk healers) Professional healers (physicians, midwives, barber-surgeons, then learned physician) (cid:862)medical pluralis(cid:373)(cid:863), (cid:862)(cid:373)edical (cid:373)arketpla(cid:272)e(cid:863) where healer which one used depended on social rank (poor people did not have access to learned physicians).
