HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bloodletting, Techne, Middle Ages
11 Sep 2016
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Mesopotamia: practicing medicine as an occupation in which they"re paid, craft (action) context, egypt: craft context persists in ancient greece. Medicine as scholarship, medicine as a branch of learning. We need blood to function: we have new scientific discoveries and theer are no practices associated with these new discoveries this all changes in the. Anaesthesia was first thought of many years before it actually become used by dentists and doctors it didn"t solve all the problems in general surgery but it helped a bit. Weakness, loss of capacity: sick, infirm, invalid, debility, sickly, somebody who is an imbecile , notion of sickness is something that debilitates a human. Deformity, unsightliness, evil: ill, maladie, something that is gross or awful or evil or bad or wicked. Discomfort: dis-ease, malaise suffering, pain, ailment, pathe, passio. A material living being: worm, you have a tooth ache because there is a worm in your mouth, there could be a worm in your stomach.
