[HIST 249] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (88 pages long)

• School: McGill University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 249
• Professor: Faith Wallis

Document Summary

Diphtheria was a very common epidemic back then for children, they suffocate to the death. It might be a teaching hospital: the procedure is not only for the children, its for the learning doctors, the nurses are all men (gender split) Mesopotamia: practicing medicine as an occupation in which they"re paid, craft (action) context, egypt: craft context persists in ancient greece. Medicine as scholarship, medicine as a branch of learning. We need blood to function: we have new scientific discoveries and theer are no practices associated with these new discoveries this all changes in the. Anaesthesia was first thought of many years before it actually become used by dentists and doctors it didn"t solve all the problems in general surgery but it helped a bit. Weakness, loss of capacity: sick, infirm, invalid, debility, sickly, somebody who is an imbecile , notion of sickness is something that debilitates a human.