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Medieval medicine attributed illnesses, and disease, not to sinful behavior, but to natural causes, and sin was connected to illness only in a more general sense of the view that disease manifested in humanity as a result of its fallen state from God.
Invoked against cholera, epidemics, knee problems, plague, skin diseases – Roch; Choreas (Sydenham's chorea, Huntington's disease), epilepsy, seizures, oversleeping – Vitus; Invoked against cirrhosis and other liver diseases – Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo [6] Riot, civil disorder – Andrew Corsini; Against cold and cold weather – Sebaldus
List of medical symptoms. Medical symptoms refer to the manifestations or indications of a disease or condition, perceived and complained about by the patient. [1] [2] Patients observe these symptoms and seek medical advice from healthcare professionals.
Humoral theory was the grand unified theory of medicine, before the invention of modern medicine, for more than 2,000 years. The theory was one of the fundamental tenets of the teachings of the Greek physician-philosopher Hippocrates (460–370 BC), who is regarded as the first practitioner of medicine, appropriately referred to as the "Father ...
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (2001) excerpt and text search excerpt and text search; Singer, Charles, and E. Ashworth Underwood. A Short History of Medicine (2nd ed. 1962) Watts, Sheldon. Disease and Medicine in World History (2003), 166pp online Archived 26 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine
In the history of medicine, diseases became better understood as human anatomy became better understood. The development of autopsy in the 15th and 16th centuries was key to this learning. As anatomists detailed the complex structures of the human body , they began to pay more attention to the pathological structures associated with diseases ...
According to Hecker, sympathy played a key role in the occurrence of the dancing mania or tarantism. People will take on the maladies of others, expressing the same symptoms without an underlying physical cause. Hecker provides several examples of other diseases or outbreaks that resulted from imitation, sympathy and compassion. The described ...
The Medical Renaissance, from around 1400 to 1700, was a period of progress in European medical knowledge, with renewed interest in the ideas of the ancient Greek, Roman civilizations and Islamic medicine, following the translation into Medieval Latin of many works from these societies. Medical discoveries during the Medical Renaissance are ...