renaissance?

Question

medicine

Answer 1

There is somewhat of a renaissance in medicine, going back to more-traditional schemes and such.

Answer 2

Salerno yielded its place as the premier medical school of Europe to Montpellier in about 1200. John of Gaddesden, the model for the "doctour of physick" in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, was one of the English students there. That he relied upon astrology and upon the doctrine of the humours is evident from Chaucer's description:

Well could he guess the ascending of the star
Wherein his patient's fortunes settled were.
He knew the course of every malady,
Were it of cold or heat or moist or dry.

Medieval physicians analyzed symptoms, examined excreta, and made their diagnoses. Then they might prescribe diet, rest, sleep, exercise, or baths; or they could administer emetics and purgatives or bleed the patient. Surgeons could treat fractures and dislocations, repair hernias, and perform amputations and a few other operations. Some of them prescribed opium, mandragora, or alcohol to deaden pain. Childbirth was left to midwives, who relied on folklore and tradition.


In spite of persecution by institutions and by religious authorities, herbalists during recent centuries have attempted to reestablish the science of herbal medicine. Samuel Thompson, an uneducated but widely respected herbalist who acquired a knowledge of herbs through broad personal experience, influenced popular and professional opinion to such a degree that many doctors and herbalists began referring to themselves as Thompsonians; by so doing they distinguished themselves from the "Regular" physicians of 19th century America who used drastic, toxic, and often deadly remedies such as calomel and blood letting. Thompson's common sense approach led to a renewal of the empirical method in herbal medicine. However, in spite of the popularity of herbal doctors during the 19th century, powerful medical syndicates successfully quashed herbal traditions in America by the early 20th century. Meanwhile, many European countries including Germany, England, and France fostered the growth of herbal traditions.

Answer 3

They didn't know too much then. Blood letting was common, so was cures by using leaches - most disease was thought to blood born.

Answer 4

yes.

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