HIST 249 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Hospital Medicine, Surgical Pathology, Cosmetology
30 Oct 2018
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There was a shift from bedside medicine to hospital medicine and then laboratory medicine. Medical cosmetology: knowledge, practice, practitioners and patients. Medical systems during this period was influenced by the power exercised by the patient. Diseases were thought to result from the imbalanced in the body"s fluids/energies and health reflected a state of balance. Practices such as bloodletting and the use of medicine to stimulate/evacuate fluids restored the equilibrium. Hospital patients came from the poorest classes and were treated for free. Doctors started use language to express themselves medically and used terms unfamiliar to most patients. Under bedside medicine the conceptualization of medicine was holistic. Hospital medicine was targeted towards taking the features of the illness and correlating them with changes taking place in the organs. The patient was subjected to rigorous physical examination and autopsies after they died. It was to look at the symptoms evident during life and in the body after death.
