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• catalog abstract "Preeminent historian of medicine Owsei Temkin has brought to his writing over the past 40 years an awesome range of scholarship. The essays gathered in this volume deal with all the topics that he considers most important in his work. They have been widely commended for their originality, intelligent analysis, and impressive continuity of thought. The essays deal with the history of basic medical sciences, of health and disease, and of surgery and drug therapy, as well as with general questions concerning the historical and philosophical approach to medicine from antiquity to the early twentieth century. -- from Book Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b1372118.
• catalog created "c1977.".
• catalog date "1977".
• catalog date "c1977.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1977.".
• catalog description "1. Introduction: The double face of Janus -- 2. The historical approach to medicine: The meaning of medicine in historical perspective -- Medicine and the problem of moral responsibility -- An essay on the usefulness of medical history for medicine -- On the interrelationship of the history and the philosophy of medicine -- The historiography of ideas in medicine -- Comparative study in the history of medicine -- 3. Medicine: ancient and medieval: Greek medicine as science and craft -- On Galen's pneumatology -- A Galenic model for quantitative physiological reasoning? -- History of Hippocratism in late antiquity: the third century and the Latin West -- Studies on late Alexandrian medicine I. Alexandrian commentaries on Galen's De Sectis ad Introducendos -- The Byzantine origin of the names for the basilic and cephalic veins -- Byzantine medicine: tradition and empiricism -- 4. Medicine: Renaissance to twentieth century:".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "On the history of "morality and syphilis" -- 7. Surgery and drug therapy: The role of surgery in the rise of modern medical thought -- Merrem's youthful dream: the early history of experimental pylorectomy -- A postscript to "Merrem's youthful dream" -- Fernel, Joubert, and Erastus on the specificity of cathartic drugs -- Therapeutic trends and the treatment of syphilis before 1900.".
• catalog description "Preeminent historian of medicine Owsei Temkin has brought to his writing over the past 40 years an awesome range of scholarship. The essays gathered in this volume deal with all the topics that he considers most important in his work. They have been widely commended for their originality, intelligent analysis, and impressive continuity of thought. The essays deal with the history of basic medical sciences, of health and disease, and of surgery and drug therapy, as well as with general questions concerning the historical and philosophical approach to medicine from antiquity to the early twentieth century. -- from Book Jacket.".
• catalog description "The elusiveness of Paracelsus -- Zimmermann's philosophy of the physician -- Wunderlich, Schelling and the history of medicine -- The European background of the young Dr. Welch -- The era of Paul Ehrlich -- 5. Basic medical sciences and biology: Metaphors of human biology -- Was Servetus influenced by Ibn an-Nafis? -- Vesalius on an immanent biological motor force -- The classical roots of Glisson's doctrine of irritation -- The philosophical background of Magendie's physiology -- Materialism in French and German physiology of the early nineteenth century -- Basic science, medicine, and the romantic era (the Fielding H. Garrison lecture) -- German concepts of ontogeny and history around 1800 -- The idea of descent in post-romantic German biology 1848-1858 -- 6. Health and disease: Health and disease -- The scientific approach to disease: specific entity and individual sickness -- An historical analysis of the concept of infection --".
• catalog extent "x, 543 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0801818591".
• catalog issued "1977".
• catalog issued "c1977.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
• catalog subject "History of Medicine Essays.".
• catalog subject "Medicine History.".
• catalog subject "R131 .T4".
• catalog subject "WZ 9 T279d 1977".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction: The double face of Janus -- 2. The historical approach to medicine: The meaning of medicine in historical perspective -- Medicine and the problem of moral responsibility -- An essay on the usefulness of medical history for medicine -- On the interrelationship of the history and the philosophy of medicine -- The historiography of ideas in medicine -- Comparative study in the history of medicine -- 3. Medicine: ancient and medieval: Greek medicine as science and craft -- On Galen's pneumatology -- A Galenic model for quantitative physiological reasoning? -- History of Hippocratism in late antiquity: the third century and the Latin West -- Studies on late Alexandrian medicine I. Alexandrian commentaries on Galen's De Sectis ad Introducendos -- The Byzantine origin of the names for the basilic and cephalic veins -- Byzantine medicine: tradition and empiricism -- 4. Medicine: Renaissance to twentieth century:".
• catalog tableOfContents "On the history of "morality and syphilis" -- 7. Surgery and drug therapy: The role of surgery in the rise of modern medical thought -- Merrem's youthful dream: the early history of experimental pylorectomy -- A postscript to "Merrem's youthful dream" -- Fernel, Joubert, and Erastus on the specificity of cathartic drugs -- Therapeutic trends and the treatment of syphilis before 1900.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The elusiveness of Paracelsus -- Zimmermann's philosophy of the physician -- Wunderlich, Schelling and the history of medicine -- The European background of the young Dr. Welch -- The era of Paul Ehrlich -- 5. Basic medical sciences and biology: Metaphors of human biology -- Was Servetus influenced by Ibn an-Nafis? -- Vesalius on an immanent biological motor force -- The classical roots of Glisson's doctrine of irritation -- The philosophical background of Magendie's physiology -- Materialism in French and German physiology of the early nineteenth century -- Basic science, medicine, and the romantic era (the Fielding H. Garrison lecture) -- German concepts of ontogeny and history around 1800 -- The idea of descent in post-romantic German biology 1848-1858 -- 6. Health and disease: Health and disease -- The scientific approach to disease: specific entity and individual sickness -- An historical analysis of the concept of infection --".
• catalog title "The double face of Janus and other essays in the history of medicine / Owsei Temkin.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".