History of Science 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: White Coat Ceremony, Phlegm, Pythagoreanism

• School: Western University
• Department: History of Science
• Course: History of Science 2220
• Professor: Lawrence Burns

Document Summary

Direct conception of modern medicine from the greeks hippocrates: simple grasp of science although wrong, still relevant. Hippocrates: asclepiad physician who traveled extensively, looking at natural causes and treatments of illnesses, epilepsy basic disease, period of classical greece, the corpus hippocraticum. Not all were written by hippocrates: mixed schools: cos, sicily, and cnidus. Group of people who believe in his doctrines taught by. Written in 4th century bce: most likely written by a pythagorean school of medicine. According to edelstein (1970), it reflects pythagorean school (because of reference to pessary, need to reform medicine, moral purity, and obligations to mentors) The oath itself was not widely adhered to (especially in light of surgeries, practices of abortions and suicide: infants didn"t have moral status, etc, no moral respect for the oath very much a. Retroactive sense of the greeks endorsing it, but.