One of the most extraordinary works in the history of medical literature – one that should be known to every neurologist, neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and student of human nature – the Hippocratic Corpus comes from a collection of medical works first assembled in the ancient library at Alexandria and ascribed to the greatest physician of ancient times, Hippocrates of Cos.
What we know of the life of the Founder of Christianity and how much He did for the ailing poor would will lead us to conclude that the religion that He established would foster the care and the cure of future suffering humanity. As I will outline in our book, MODERN PASTORAL MEDICINE, the first works of Christian service was organized care for the sick. History records that the first hospitals were Christian, and is a conspicuous mark upon the landscape of humanity. Historical records are rich with medical practices, discoveries and healing traditions from diverse civilizations, including the Greeks, the Romans, the Essenes, the Therapeutae, the Arabs, the Chinese, the Hindus, and the Native Americans, to name just a few. These cultures even produced some healing temples, spas, and clinics. But the record of antiquity prior to and apart from the influence of Christianity is astonishingly vacant when it comes to the hospital as we know it today.
The early Christian and medieval age is probably the most difficult period of medical history to understand properly, but it is worth while taking the trouble to follow out the thread of medical tradition from the Greeks to the Jews, Christians, and Arabs, and how the Renaissance medical writers began modern medicine as we now know it today.
Distinguished Christian writers and scholars, and the Fathers of the Church in the early centuries paid much attention to medical care. In monastic medicine, diagnosis and the taxonomy of illness were central. Diagnosis in the medieval literature was called discernment (diakrisis). Discernment was to differentiate an illness caused by demons or one caused by natural elements. Discernment also was important to identify malingers who would pretend illness in order to receive food and shelter.
The rise of modern medicine is associated with the Renaissance period. The scientific revolution got underway with the gutenburg press and the Protestant Reformation. Following came advances in chemistry and pharmacy, paralleling advances in anatomy and physiology. We hold all these advances sacred. Medicine at its best, has been largely advanced by Christian ideals. However, we do not slight Jewish, Arabic, Persian, and Oriental contributions.
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SACRED MEDICAL WORKS & AUTHORS
Sir Charles Bell - Amde
Pichot
Claude Bernard - Foster, M. (Michael),
Sir, 1836-1907
Boerhaave's Aphorisms: Concerning the
Knowledge and Cure of Diseases - Herman Boerhaave,
J . Delacoste
Experimental
researches on specific therapeutics - Paul
Ehrlich
Trabajos
selectos del Dr. Carlos J. Finlay. Selected
papers of Dr. Carlos J. Finlay - Finlay,
Carlos Juan, 1833-1915
The life of
Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin -
Maurois, Andre, 1885-1967
The works of John Fothergill (Volume 1) - Fothergill,
John, 1712-1780
The works of John Fothergill (Volume 2)
Galen and Paracelsus -
Dalton, John Call, 1825-1889
Albrechts von Haller Tagebuch
seiner Beobachtungen ber Schriftsteller und ... -
Albrecht von Haller
Hippocratic Corpus
Hippocrates (Volume 1) –
Hoeniger, F. David
Hippocrates (Volume 2) -
Hippocrates (Volume 3) -
Hippocrates (Volume 4) –
Sebastian Kneipp - Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
Observations
on m. Laennec's method of
forming a diagnosis of the diseases of the chest by means ... -
Charles Scudamore
Life and
Letters of Thomas Hodgkin ...: [Illustr.] 2. ed. - Louise
Creighton
Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated -
Birnbaum, Max, 1862-
Joseph Lister - Professor Sir Roddy MacSween
Honorary President of the Glasgow Southern Medical Society and speaker
for the evening, Professor Sir Roddy MacSween, relates the life and work of
Joseph Lister.
Life and
times of Ambroise Pare with a new translation of his Apology and an account of
his journeys in divers places - Par, Ambroise,
1510-1590
Men against
death - De Kruif, Paul, 1890-1971
Moses Maimonides - Israel Friedlaender
The life of Pasteur - Vallery-Radot, Ren, 1853-1933
Muhammad ibn
Zakariya al-Razi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis: Sein Leben und wirken - Fritz
Schrer von Waldheim, Ignʹac Flp
Timeline of Christian missions - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
History of medicine ; a brief outline of medical history from the earliest
historic period with an extended account of the various sects of physicians and
new schools of medicine in later
centuries - Wilder, Alexander, 1823-1908
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