Author : Arthur Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780880294379
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (943 download)
Book Synopsis Elizabethan Eccentrics by : Arthur Freeman
Download or read book Elizabethan Eccentrics written by Arthur Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1990-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Crusades, Black Death, Paracelsus, Vesalius, Pare, Superstitions, Medicine in America, Operating Room, Barracks & Prisons, Laboratory. "The history of health is the cue to the logic of modern medicine; if people know the past they will be able to interpret the present. That is what I had in mind when I wrote these pages.the scenes and deeds of medicine are not to be comprehended in the sentimental story of the 'good fight' for the sake of humanity. They are part, rather, of the grim tale of man's ignorance and hope, his life and death. I want you to see the reeking, sweating, savage medicine man struggling with the spirits of disease - the savage who gave us the principle of nearly everything we have in medicine today.I want you to join the temple throngs and pay your respects to Imhotep and Aesculapius; stand for a moment beside the philosophers who rescued medicine from religion and beside the physicians who rescued it from the philosophers. I want you to meet galen, admire his intellect and condone his egotism."