ANT220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tabula Rasa, Gladiator, Humorism
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Anthropological approaches to the study of health and disease. Were learning surface anatomy, looking at patients for symptoms and skin, excretion. Believes the heart is the center of everything. Snakes lived around the temple and was a symbol of rejuvenation. Has nothing to do with medicine and never did. 1902: captain of the military medical corps, medical corps, mixed them up and accidentally chose the caduceus symbol. And now we use it all the time just because he mixed them up. Has treatments and instructions for various kinds of surgeries and diseases. Fevers must be an effort of the body to fight disease. If you don"t interfere with the fever, the end result will be better than if you do. Had a very elaborate way of teaching anatomy. Took animals and presented shows where he would pull the organs out of animals to teach them. A gladiator who has been stabbed in the heart were lucid until death.
