Gunther von Hagen Body Worlds http wwwbodyworldscom enhtml The four humours are blood p hlegm bile also termed choler or red or yellow bile black bile or melancholy ID: 1044925
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1. Lecture 4: The Rise of Experience in Medicine – the Example of AnatomyGunther von Hagen, Body Worlds,http://www.bodyworlds.com/en.html
2. The four humours are:bloodphlegmbile (also termed choler, or red or yellow bile)black bile (or melancholy) Two central functions of the humors:Nourishment of the body. The four humors were believed to be fused in the blood, the actual liquid in the veins, which was thought to be produced in the liver. From there it was sent throughout the body to nourish its individual parts. Each organ was believed to have an individual complexion and thus needed specific humours: brain needed predominantly phlegm, heart needed the humor blood etc. the means whereby an individual's overall complexional balance was maintained or altered
3. the six-non naturals: air, food and drink, sleeping and waking, motion and rest, excretions and retentions, and the passions of the soul
4. Aristotelian cosmosMicro-macrocosm
5. The role of sense ‘Experience’ for an Aristotelian natural philosopher:Thinking starts from sense experience. However, that is not the Knowledge natural philosophers are after. They aim to achieve‘universally’ true knowledge. Aim is to discuss why things are the way they are!In this thinking there is no room for ‘novelty’ or ‘discoveries’ as we celebrate in modern science
6. Production of knowledge is based on the interpretation of ancient texts; personal sensual experience is not valued as important in the production of academic medical knowledge; physicians are masters of textsTwo forms of medical practice1. Academic medicine
7. Avicenna (Latinate form of Ibn-Sīnā), c. 980 AD – 1037 AD Rhazes, 854 AD – 925 AD Hippocrates of Cos, c. 460 – c. 370 BCGalen of Pergamon, 130 AD – 200 AD
8. materia medica: something from which medicalremedies can be prepared Dioscorides, 40 AD - 90 ADDe materia medica, 5 vols.
9. 2. Non-academic medicineBUT practical knowledge is considered ‘lower’, orless ‘noble’ knowledge because it deals with practical ends'Surgical texts
10. Mondino de’ Luzzi, also called Mondino, ca.1270-1326Anathomia corporis humani, 1316His way of describing body parts becomes hegemonic for two centuries: One begins those of the abdominal cavity then proceeds via the thorax to the head and extremities The rise of practical knowledge in medicine
11. Set-up of a disssetionJoannes von Ketham, 1493
12. Humanism: a cultural movement originating in Italy in the late fourteenth Century and the fifteenth century. It consisted of a reverence for and close study of the writings of Greek and Roman antiquity and promoted attempts at the emulation of ancient cultural achievements.The rise of Galen as a ‘superstar’ of 15th and 16th century medicine: physicians aim to ‘re-discover his anatomical practiceThomas Linacre (1460-1524) translates Galen’s On the Natural Faculties (1523) Johannes Guinter of Andernach (1487-1574), professor in Paris, translated the newly discovered and most important text of Galen, On Anatomical Procedures, 1531. Vesalius was one of his students and admired his workImportant for the rise is humanist movement:
13. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519The rise of ‘naturalistic’ representation of human bodies in art
14. ‘Very beautiful and most worthy of such a famous artist, but indeed useless; he did not even know the number of intestines. He was a pure painter, not a medicus or philosopher.’ (Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576)A dissection of the principal organs and The arteriel system of a female figure, c. 1508 Artists aim to represent the ‘most perfect’Body according to ancient ideals NOT how it really functions
15. Geometry and proportion of the ‘perfect man’
16. Giacomo Berengario da Carpi (1460–1530) Anatomia Carpi. Isagoge breves perlucide ac uberime, in Anatomiam humani corporis, 1530Increasing collaboration between artists and medical practitioners since the invention of print
17. Johannes Gutenberg, c.1398 – 1468Invention of movable type printing around 143942-line Bible, 1455
18. Dr Leonhard Fuchs and his ‘team’
19. Vesalius brings two forms of experience together:‘I decided that this branch of natural philosophy ought to be recalled from the region of the dead. If it does not attain a fuller development among us then ever before or elsewhere among the early professors of dissection, at least it may reach such a point that one can assert without shame that the present science of anatomy is comparable to that of the ancients, and that in our age noting has been so degraded and then wholly restored as anatomy.’ (De Fabrica, Preface, in Dear, p. 38)
20. ‘Let them use their hands…as the Greeks did and as the essence of the art demands’ Book 1: skeletonBook 2: myology, all the muscles and their relationsBooks 3 and 4: venous, arterial and nervous systemsBooks 5-6: organs of the abdominal and thoracic cavities and the brain Book 7: he reports own experiments and vivisections
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