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The Medicine of the People: A history of popular medicine before the National Health Service

The Medicine of the People: A history of popular medicine before the National Health Service

Chapman, Allan

Paperback

Medical ReferenceBritish History

ISBN10: 0852449313
ISBN13: 9780852449318
Publisher: Gracewing
Published: Oct 15 2018
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

So much research in the history of medicine has been devoted to the development of medicine as a progressive science. The Medicine of the People, however, looks at the medical perceptions of lay people over the last four centuries. Lying at the heart of these perceptions is a set of ideas first formulated by Hippocrates, Aristotle and other ancient Greek physicians, which tried to understand illness in terms of vital properties. These included the four Humours of Yellow Bile, Black Bile, Blood and Phlegm, the centrality of the heart as a 'sensitive' organ, the brain as a cooling plant for the blood, and health as a state of balance between hot, cold, moist and dry forces. Such a notion of disease runs through Chaucer, Shakespeare and the early academic physicians, though it lost scientific credibility in the eighteenth century.

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