HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Entrust, Pro Bono, Pessary

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

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Ho(cid:373)e(cid:396) (cid:894)?8(cid:1009)(cid:1004) bce(cid:895): disease is a (cid:862)thi(cid:374)g(cid:863) -> a(cid:396)te(cid:373)is/apollo(cid:859)s a(cid:396)(cid:396)o(cid:449)s. Hesiod (ca 750-(cid:1010)(cid:1009)(cid:1004) bce(cid:895) wo(cid:396)ks a(cid:374)d da(cid:455)s: (cid:862)diseases spo(cid:374)ta(cid:374)eousl(cid:455) (cid:894)auto(cid:373)atai) come upon man (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)uall(cid:455) da(cid:455) a(cid:374)d (cid:374)ight(cid:863) -> pa(cid:374)do(cid:396)a(cid:859)s (cid:271)o(cid:454) (cid:396)eleases all diseases universal not targeted. Hippocrates: disease is nature, even if its hostile to human nature. Metabole = change (ethics) -> health = stability change from health is being unstable. Agon = contest (politics) -> disease vs. human. Mias(cid:373)a = (cid:862)pollutio(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:396)eligio(cid:374)(cid:895) -> can be from contagion (contact), which can come from birth, death or blood: time & cleansing to return to shrines, hippocrates takes contagion to define epidemic. The nature of diseases -> do(cid:374)(cid:859)t like to (cid:374)a(cid:373)e the(cid:373) Diseases (cid:894)(cid:374)a(cid:373)es diseases; fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) ill(cid:374)ess as (cid:858)e(cid:374)tit(cid:455)(cid:859)(cid:895) (cid:448)s. epide(cid:373)i(cid:272)s (cid:894)(cid:374)o (cid:374)a(cid:373)es; fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) ill(cid:374)ess as (cid:858)e(cid:448)e(cid:374)t(cid:859)) Diseases are named by: prominent symptom (consumption, location of disturbance (pneumonia, observed or inferred mechanism (dropsy = hydrops)