Roman medicine is a topic on which much has been written. Ideas have changed over time and as new ideas emerge and new artifacts are discovered in Rome. As ideas change and new works are published, readers must consider that impact on earlier published works and the context of the works in which they read. As such, works can be read in the context of an established ideal and analyzed from that viewpoint. The established ideal to which the following works are to be analyzed through, is that of Roman medicine as a conglomeration of old ideas from Greece and Alexandria and practiced and developed to the benefit of the Roman Empire and its people.
Osler doesn’t mention much about Rome in his book, The Evolution of Modern Medicine, but what he …show more content…
Osler also discusses Galen’s impacts on modern medicine and the fact that Galen’s ideas persisted until the Renaissance and even after: “Altogether there is no ancient physician in whose writings are contained so many indications of modern methods of research.” Osler recognizes in his monograph that Galen set the framework for even modern day medicine.
Bliquez’s article, “Greek and Roman Medicine,” moves away from writing analysis, on which most medicine historian’s focus, and instead discusses archaeology. “For the most part, scholarship on Greek and Roman medicine has tended to focus either on abstract and philosophical theories or on social questions about ancient physicians, such as their training and their …show more content…
An essay on the evolution of modern medicine and cardiology.” This article corroborates the established ideal and discusses Galen as a scientist-author, clinician, and diagnostician. Pasipoularides credits Galen with much of what modern medicine knows about the circulatory system, but also discusses, as many others have, the one idea that was out of reach for Galen. This idea was that of the heart being a pump for the blood that is circulated throughout the human body. This idea was “ebb-and-flow” and went unchallenged until the
Osler doesn’t mention much about Rome in his book, The Evolution of Modern Medicine, but what he …show more content…
Osler also discusses Galen’s impacts on modern medicine and the fact that Galen’s ideas persisted until the Renaissance and even after: “Altogether there is no ancient physician in whose writings are contained so many indications of modern methods of research.” Osler recognizes in his monograph that Galen set the framework for even modern day medicine.
Bliquez’s article, “Greek and Roman Medicine,” moves away from writing analysis, on which most medicine historian’s focus, and instead discusses archaeology. “For the most part, scholarship on Greek and Roman medicine has tended to focus either on abstract and philosophical theories or on social questions about ancient physicians, such as their training and their …show more content…
An essay on the evolution of modern medicine and cardiology.” This article corroborates the established ideal and discusses Galen as a scientist-author, clinician, and diagnostician. Pasipoularides credits Galen with much of what modern medicine knows about the circulatory system, but also discusses, as many others have, the one idea that was out of reach for Galen. This idea was that of the heart being a pump for the blood that is circulated throughout the human body. This idea was “ebb-and-flow” and went unchallenged until the