HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Scholasticism, Menopause, Psychosurgery

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

Document Summary

A dedication in a book is what makes money, gives a pension or a post (job) Asking for patronage to charles v is an imperial privilege (like a copyright protection) Surgery is considered the heroic branch of medicine (cid:862)lesio(cid:374)s of (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)uit(cid:455)(cid:863) trauma (cid:862)(cid:272)hiefl(cid:455) i(cid:374) (cid:449)ar (cid:863) appealing to charles to promote a kind of medicine: surgery, which would be useful in times of war. Dissection is the very beginning of natural philosophy according to vesalius. Barbers did a bad job at dissecting while vesalius had finesse in his work. Anatomy is a power science; exploring the cosmos by going in the body (microcosm charles was interested in science) U(cid:374)i(cid:448)ersit(cid:455)"s role: s(cid:272)holasti(cid:272)is(cid:373) fo(cid:272)uses o(cid:374) te(cid:454)t (cid:271)ut (cid:374)ot the pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e of (cid:373)edi(cid:272)i(cid:374)e. Organization of medicine: excluding mds (uni-trained), there are many other medical practices (i. e. barbers that cut hair, remove warts or let blood) Involutional period: menopause: women are the patients. There should be a sham operation (control group)