3.2 Flashcards
Late Medieval Medicine
- dominated by Aristotle and Galen
- Human dissections instruction, Physiology or functioning of the body, and the four humors were dominated by
What was relied or dominated by Galen
-Human dissections instruction, Physiology or functioning of the body, and the four humors
Galen
- 2nd century
- His human anatomy was relied on animal dissection and inaccurate in many instances
- Physiology: Believed there were two separate blood systems
- Created doctrine of Four Humors
- believed that the poison that caused the disease could cure if it was in the proper form and quantity
Four Humors
- Blood: warm and moist
- Yellow bie: warm and dry
- Phlegm: cold and moist
- Block bile: cold and dry
- Since you could tell the imbalance of humors from the urine, examining the urine was a chief diagnostic tool
- treatment with herbal medicine were helpful
Paracelsus
- 16th century
- Didn’t agree with Aristotle and Galen
- He desired to replace the traditional system with a new chemical philosophy
- Gave patients chemical remedies and paid attention to the amount of the chemicals
- believed that the poison that caused the disease could cure if it was in the proper form and quantity, “like cure like”
- KNOWN FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES
Chemical Philosophy of paracelus
- a human is a small replica of the larger world
- the universe is represented within each person
- all chemical reactions of the universe are reproduced in human beings on a smaller scale
- said that diseases are due to chemical imbalanced and could be treated by chemical remedies
Vesalius
- After discovering a text of Galen, he learned that practical research is the avenue for understanding human anatomy
- 16th century
- Book: On the Fabric of Human Body
- Since Taught Anatomy hands on, he could correct Galen’s mistakes
- Still held on to some of GalEN’s assertions
Vesalius’s book: On the Fabric of Human Body
- showed a careful examination of the organs and structure of the human body
- Creation of illustrations were superior than anything before because of artistic advances of renaissance and printing
- Dissected to prove his point
William Harvey
- 16th century
- Book: On the Motion of the Heart and Blood
harvey’s demonstrations
- the liver was not the beginning point of the circulation of blood in the body
-the same blood flows in veins and arteries
blood makes a complete circuit as it passes through the body which laid the foundation for modern physiology
Robert Boyle
- 17th and 18th century
- first to conduct controlled experiments
- Boyle’s law
- matter is made up of atoms instead of the same component
Antoine Lavoisier
- 18th century
- Invented system of naming chemical elements
- demonstrate fundamental rules of chemical combination
Women during the Middle Ages
- besides religious orders, women were to have a traditional life of a daugh, wife, and mother
- 14th and 15th century, they were encouraged to have secular, humanist education and to study classical and christian texts
- only privileged women had an ideal humanist education and if they were interested in science they had to get a largely informal education and could if they are noblewomen
- Difficulties of women shown in Winkelmann being denied by Berlin Academy
German women during the middle ages
- participated in craft production that enabled them to be involved in science
- Craft organization of astronomy gave them opportunities and worked in family observatories as apprentices
Margaret Cavendish
- 17th century aristocrat, English French
- Participated in the scientific debates of her time
- Didn’t agree that through science humans would be masters of nature and attacked the defects of rationalist and empiricist approaches to science.
Maria Merian
- German, 18th century, craft tradition
- Entomologist (study of insects and plants)
- Learned and created illustrations of her observation of insects and plants
- After going to South America, she created book that showed illustrations
Maria Winkelmann
- German, craft organization of astronomy
- Discovered an undiscovered comet and was Kirch’s assistant at Berlin Academy
- Praised by Gottfried Leibniz
- Denied by Berlin Academy to be assistant astronomer because she was a women with no university degree
Querelles des femmes
Debate about women
beliefs of Querelles des femmes
- Women were seen as without merit, inclined to do bad things, easily swayed or controlled, and sexually insatiable
- Men need to control women
- Learned women were seen as overcoming feminine bad qualities to become a man
women responding to Querelles des femmes
- Said women don’t need male authority
- Said education was the key to women’s ability to move into the world
Scientific Revolution and the View of Women
- the scientific revolution was used to find new support for the old views of women
- Attempt to illustrate human body and skeleton (MORE ON ANOTHER FLASHCARD)
- distribution of books ensure the continuation of male dominance
- midwifery (MORE ON ANOTHER FLASHCARD)
Scientific Revolution and the View of Women
Attempt to illustrate human body and skeleton
- 6th and 17th century: Vesalius saw no difference in skeleton of men and women
- 18th century: in drawings, women had a larger pelvic area which proved that women were meant to be childbearers and smaller skulls which provided men are more superior
Scientific Revolution and the View of Women (midwifery)
- traditionally being a women’s job
- men took over in 18th century, using techniques derived from the study of anatomy, which justify male dominance
- only among the poor, midwives could continue doing this
Descartes
- 7th century
- Had an experience where he perceived the outlines of a new rational mathematical system
- Book: Discourse on Method
- Decided that he would accept only the things that this reason said were true
- Created Cartesian dualism
- Believed that the mind and matter are different because the mind cannot be doubted but the material world can
- Emphasized deduction and mathematical logic and rationalism
- He started with an axiom known to be true then used logical reasoning to deduce various inferences