A doctor's table talk / by James Gregory Mumford.

  • James Gregory Mumford
Date:
1912
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Credit: A doctor's table talk / by James Gregory Mumford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    again to take on life. Suffice it now to mention a few conspicuous names of Fare’s period: Andreas Vesalius, of Padua, his contemporary, restored anatomy, — Vesalius, one of those remarkable youths whom history betimes records, wise, pro- phetic, daring; Paracelsus, charlatan or seer, bom- bastic and brilliant, taught his disciples to look beyond tradition and the authority of a dead lan- guage; Malpighi showed that the organs of the body are not homogeneous, but are composed of cells, themselves distinct entities; Servetus per- ceived something of the circulation of the blood, and was burned by the Protestants; Eustachius contributed to human anatomy; Linacre founded the Royal College of Physicians in London; while Sylvius, in Paris, gathered up, compiled, and sys- tematized the fragments of former knowledge. “One observes such scattered facts, not because they matter much now to us, or greatly concerned Pare, but because they recall for us the best types of scientific men who were then beginning to think. For the mass of physicians and surgeons in the sixteenth century we can say little of good. They lived according to their dreary lights, and practiced monstrously. Ignorant of anatomy, of physiology,
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