HPS319H1 Lecture Notes - Andreas Vesalius, Making Money, Marcello Malpighi
4 Feb 2013
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History of medicine ii (lecture one) september 12 2012. Concern with making money rather than in the healing process (1891) painting to reassure patients of interest in care. Ideas associated with the 17th 19th century. The body is fluid and must be kept in balance. Blood-letting: prevalence of more of one humor, used to balance body. Doctors to examine urine (an indication of the health of the body) Examine the outside of the body (surface of the skin to indicate interior wellness) Formation of social spaces (i. e. barber shops as a place to shave and blood-let) Mondino writes anathomia in the 1300"s before writing was prevalent. Examined the anatomy of animals and compared them with that of humans. The book is the center of dissection. Early 16th c. vesalius argues against galen"s theories. Vesalius takes the claim to have started a new era of anatomy. Anatomical dissection carried out in private and public spaces.
