), was an empirical In the and century a much greater name appears among the methodists, that of Soranus of Ephesus, a Although no system or important doctrine of medicine was originated by the Roman intellect, and though the practice of the profession was probably almost entirely in the hands of the Greeks, the most complete picture which we have of medical thought and activity in Roman times is due to a Latin pen, and to one who was, in all probability, not a Of Pliny, another encyclopaedic writer, a few words must be said, though he was not a For some centuries the methodic school was popular at Rome, and produced one The earliest is Oribasius (326-403), whose date and position are fixed by his being the friend and court Either to the 10th or the 11th century must be referred the name of another Arabian Nature was sufficient for the cure of most diseases; art had only to interfere when the internal One of the most elaborate developments of the system was that of Archibald Pitcairne (1652-1713), a Scottish The great sensational philosopher was a thoroughly trained "It is very evident," he says, "that all other means of improving medicine have been found ineffectual, by the stand it was at for two thousand years, and that, since mathematicians have sot themselves to the study of it, men already begin to talk so intelligibly and comprehensibly, even about abstruse matters, that it is to be hoped that mathematical learning will be the distinguishing mark of a An important academical position was, on the other hand, one of the reasons why a In America the system was enthusiastically adopted by a noted One novelty, however, of the first importance is due to a Vienna William Hunter (1718-1783) was known in London as a brilliant teacher of anatomy and successful obstetric The degradation of medicine between Galen and Harvey, if in part it consisted in the blind following of the authority of the former If at first in the 18th century, and in the earlier 19th, the discoveries in this branch of medical knowledge had a certain isolation, due perhaps to the prepossessions of the school of Sydenham, they soon became the property of the It is obvious that the results of such advances prescribe for the clinical That the division of labour, which may seem to disintegrate the calling of the Yet on the whole, even from the beginning, the revolt was useful in that it shook the position of the "learned But bodily defect is largely a result of evil circumstances, in the prevention of which the In the treatment of effusions into the pleura and, though with less advantage, of pericardial effusions, direct mechanical interference was practised by one We have said that this advance is often quoted, not very wisely, to signify that in modern progress "medicine" has fallen behind surgery - as if the art of the The first recognition of a disease may be at a necropsy, but then usually by irresponsible pathologists; it is another matter when the Finally, calculation by statistics (William Farr, Karl Pearson, and others) has been brought into line with other scientific methods: the method is a difficult one, and one full of pitfalls for the unwary, yet when by co-operation of MICHAEL SERVETUS [MIGUEL SERVETO] (151 I - I 553), Foreign artists worked for him at high wages; from Athens he brought Democedes, the greatest After studying at St John's College, Cambridge, and at Edinburgh, he settled in 1756 as a JOHANN JACOB REISKE (1716-1774), German scholar and This was a work for which his experience, habits of observation, and scientific training peculiarly fitted him, and in which his popularity as a teacher, no less than his power as a practical His clearness of statement and power of imparting interest to the most abstruse topics were the conspicuous features of his teaching, and in his various capacities as a scientific lecturer, a physiologist, and a practical HENRI HUREAU DE SENARMONT (1808-1862), French mineralogist and In 1744 he graduated as a doctor of medicine; he became Arthur, and to Abraham Coles (1813-1891), a poet and For him chemistry was the science of the composition of substances, not merely an adjunct to the arts of the alchemist or the JEAN BARBEYRAC (1674-1744), French jurist, the nephew of Charles Barbeyrac, a distinguished of Paris University, and three years later was appointed ALEXANDER OF TRALLES (ALEXANDER TRALLIANUS), Greek The first attempt of this kind is that of a French Catholic In May 1854 he resigned his seat, on the orders of his "Productive" is by no means equivalent to "useful": the labours of the magistrate, the soldier, the churchman, lawyer and His family came from Prussia in the early part of the 18th century; his grandfather was appointed " Jesus saith, A prophet is not acceptable in his own country, neither doth a The first regular expedition to ry penetrate far inland was in 1801-1802, when John (afterwards Sir John) Truter, of the Cape judicial bench, and William Somerville - an army Knutsford was the birthplace of Sir Henry Holland, 5 that in 1748 he was compelled to quit Holland for Berlin, where Frederick the Great not only allowed him to practise as a The Author Of The System Adopted By Gregory Was Aloysius Lilius, Or Luigi Lilioghiraldi, A Learned Astronomer And It appears that he afterwards went to London, and acted as corum, a double star, of magnitudes 3 and 6; this star was named Cor Caroli, or The Heart of Charles II., by Edmund Halley, on the suggestion of Sir Charles Scarborough (1616-1694), the court A further supply of eggs was secretly obtained by a Dutch Having been placed in his fourteenth year under the charge of his maternal great-uncle Dr Gem, On the 31st of March 1820 missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions - two clergymen, two teachers, a Thus Karl Christoph Vogt repeated the saying of the French In 1865 this was elaborated into a separate biography by another son, Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (1808-1892), a famous Boston The extant hexameter poem De viribus (or virtutibus) herbarum, ascribed to Macer, is a medieval production by Odo Magdunensis, a French PIETRO D'ABANO' (1250-1316), known also as Petrus De Apono or Aponensis, Italian After studying medicine and philosophy at Paris he settled at Padua, where he speedily gained a great reputation as a Ilept KaTaeAiaews 7rpo'yvwo ruca, he speaks of the advantage of a knowledge of physiognomy to the Forbes, Travels through the Alps of Savoy (1843, new ed., 1900); Sir John Forbes, A His father, the natural son of a grandmaster of the Teutonic order, was Wilhelm Bombast von Hohenheim, who had a hard struggle to make a subsistence as a The book of nature, he affirmed, is that which the The humours and passions and diseases of different nations are different, and the So in 1526 or 1527, on his return to Basel, he was appointed town Moreover, he had a pharmaceutical system of his own which did not harmonize with the commercial arrangements of the apothecaries, and he not only did not use up their drugs like the Galenists, but, in the exercise of his functions as town The first author who described the Indian mines at all fully was the Portuguese, Garcia de Orta (1565), who was He that sinneth against his Maker will behave himself proudly against a To the motley commonwealth thus formed he acted not merely as ruler, but also as GUILLAUME BENJAMIN AMAND DUCHENNE (1806-1875), French SIR HANS SLOANE (1660-1753), British collector and Empedocles of Acragas is best known from the legends of his miracles and of his death in the fires of Aetna; but he was not the less philosopher, poet and The city has a monument (1900) to John Gorrie (1803-1855), a of medicine at Leiden; in his inaugural discourse, De commendando Hippocratis studio, he recommended to his pupils that great His reputation was not confined to Europe; a Chinese mandarin wrote him a letter directed "To the illustrious Boerhaave, One section, giving us some of the mysteries of the (Tomaso Parentucelli or Tomaso da Sarzana), pope from the 6th of March 1447 to the 24th of March 1455, was born at Sarzana, where his father was a We have the evidence of this in his own written words, as well as in a sketch which he drew to indicate the seat of his suffering to some This information should not be considered complete and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, call, consultation, or advice of your His brother, Michel Augustin Thouret (1748-1810), a He had seven children, only three of whom survived him - the distinguished At Taenarum in Laconia he had a famous cave-like temple, with an asylum, and on the island of Tenos he was worshipped as the (Lorenzo Ganganelli), pope from 1769 to 1774, son of a We find him at different periods in Seville, Cordova and Morocco, probably as Now it is true that before 447 B.C., besides the teachers of writing, gymnastics and music, to whom the young Greek resorted for elementary instruction, there were artists and artisans who not only practised their crafts, but also communicated them to apprentices and pupils, and that accordingly the Platonic Protagoras recognizes in the gymnast Iccus, the But the first Greek historian who speaks clearly of India was Hecataeus of Miletus (549-486 B.C.
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