Evolution of Modern Medicine Technical Narration.
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the Evolution of Modern Medicine by William Osler 18 49 to 1919 The Greek doctrine of the four U. S. Coloured all the conceptions of disease upon their harmony alone. It was thought that health depended the four temperaments sanguine, phlegmatic, bilious and melancholic corresponded with the prevailing sense of these U. S. The body was composed of certain so called natural ALS seven in number. The elements, the temperaments, the hummus, the members or parts, the virtues or faculties, the operations or functions and the spirits. Certain non natural ALS nine number preserved the health of the body, this air, food and drink movement and propose sleeping and waking. Excretion and retention and the passions disease was due, usually to alterations in the composition of the US and the indications for treatments were in accordance with these doctrines. They were to be evaluated, attenuated, cooled, heated, purged or strengthened. This funeral doctrine prevailed throughout the Middle Ages and reached far into modern times. Indeed, echoes of it are still to be heard in popular conversations on the nature of disease. The Arabians were famous for their vigour and resource in matters of treatment. Bleeding was the first resort in a large majority of all diseases. In the practise of Ferrari, there is scarcely a malady for which is is not recommended. All remedies were directed to the regulation of the six non natural oils, and they either preserved health, cured the disease or did the opposite. The most popular medicines were derived from the vegetable kingdom, and as they were chiefly those recommended by Galen, they were and still are called by his name. Many important mineral medicines were introduced by the Arabians, particularly mercury, antimony, iron, etcetera. There were, in addition, scores of substances, the parts or products of animals, some harmless, other salutary, others again useless and disgusting. Meidan surgery was in the hands of the barbers who performed all the minor operations such as bleeding. The more important operations, few in number, were performed by surgeons.