HIST 249 Lecture 8: HIST249 Lecture 8
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Scholasticism is the study of texts from the past combined with debates (eg: the where babies come from debate and how galen and aristotle differ on this score. ) Debates like these become classic in the middle ages. Medical knowledge was a philosophy and science of the body (physica) Animals used to be dissected as a material demonstration of the anatomical teachings of galen in order to show what structures like the lungs look like and where certain organs are. In salerno, they dissected pigs in the 12th century. There is, besides logic, a practical side to medical education that focuses on dissection. The biggest revolution comes in the 13th century in bologna italy where for the rst time since ancient alexandria, human bodies are used to teach dissections. Nobody knows how it starts, it just seems to happen sometime around the last quarter of the 13th century at which point the.
