In Search of a New Mentality: The Interface of Academic and Popular Medicine in the Sixteenth Century

Cole, Richard

doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.1993.2604_155.x

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“…Certain friars in the monasteries at Mönchaertz planted medicinal herbs in the gardens and combated witches and demons with prayer and magic. 6 This situation remained unchanged into the 16th century. For instance, contemporaries believed that the 1523 plague outbreak "came from corrupted deep wells, from which foul fumes rose, or from the large strong earthquakes in other countries, where the evil, poisonous fumes inside the mountains had become free, wafting over many hundreds of miles."…”

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The Reformation and Modern German Medicine

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2015

Chinese Studies in History

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The words and deeds of three religious reformers provide context in this exploration of the relationship between the Reformation and the development of modern German medicine. For the past few decades, historians have regarded the Reformation and the development of German medicine as two parallel movements, and incisive exploration of the connection between the two is lacking. However, Luther's medical views, Melanchthon's medical education, and Bugenhagen's medical practice demonstrate that the Reformation played a powerful and irreplaceable role in promoting the development of modern German medicine. Proactive treatment, respect for doctors, medicine based on natural science, education on anatomy, government-run hospitals, and the provision of free medical treatment for the poor were the roots of modern medicine, all personally nurtured by Luther and other such figures. Although the development of German medicine later attracted worldwide attention in its position at the global forefront, the first foundations for its operations were laid by 16th century Germans, Translation

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Jodocus Lommius's Little Golden Book and the History of Diagnostic Semeiology

Duffin¹

2006

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

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This paper traces the nature and fortunes of Lommius' Medicinal Observations of 1560, its relationship to ancient authors, its two-and-a-half centuries of fame, and its fall. Originating as an accessible manual of diagnosis for municipal authorities, it emphasized the observable aspects of illness and downplayed the role of humors and hidden causes. As a result, it both heralded and served the trend to symptom-based nosology. Eventually, as disease concepts shifted from symptoms to organs, Lommius was eclipsed by the next epistemic fashion: positivistic organicism. The multiple editions of this work invite us to reconsider the sustained influence of ancient writers, including Celsus, in medical pedagogy and semeiology, as well as the timing and location of the development of nosological concepts of disease. Class considerations and the proclivities of twentieth-century scholarship contributed to the obscurity of this book in our time.

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In Search of a New Mentality: The Interface of Academic and Popular Medicine in the Sixteenth Century

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The Reformation and Modern German Medicine

The Reformation and Modern German Medicine

Jodocus Lommius's Little Golden Book and the History of Diagnostic Semeiology

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