HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Miasma Theory, Microbiological Culture, French Wine
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History 249 - health and healer in the western world. Why was this such a good environment for the stat method: the hospitals were big = many cases and record-keeping was developed. The doctor thus has to empty the system. = hospital medicine had brought to people"s attention that most diseases went the way they went not truly altered by clinical intervention diseases were either self-limiting and the patient got better anyway. E. g. reflected in the caricature the physician" by honor daumier 1833) Though people demanded treatment and some was given, there was simply limited belief in it"s utility: h = doctor whom knows a lot but can"t necessarily do a lot in response. Part 2 modern medicine laboratory revolution one way of addressing the problem of therapy was finding the causes of disease = what doctors tried to do from mid- Bright heating the urine of his patients to find protein or later diagnosis of tb by identifying bacteria.
