HSS 2321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Alternative Medicine, Social Forces, Flexner Report
15 Apr 2018
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Chapter 10: social democratic & current history of medicine. First canadian med system consisted of various medical/religious institutions of many groups of aboriginals. Each of these groups have its own definitions of what constitute health & illness. They developed effective botanical & physical (massages) remedies. Medicine man were both spiritual leaders & healers; used plants as med (ritual purposes too) Ex. treatment of scurvy from use of white bark taught to jacque cartier by them. Crowded boat - susceptibility of spread of disease; pioneer life in hazards. Extremely cold winter; growing season accidents (farmland), building of roads; epidemics of smallpox, etc. Origins of the type of medical practice we have today were derived from the past. Barber-surgeons: first allopathic med practitioners - dispensing avail med. Practice of bleeding as a treatment; surgery was practiced only in limbs & surface of body (internal surgery mostly results in death b/c bleeding & sepsis are preventable yet)
