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History of medicine

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study of the development of medicine over time

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And, first, of the influences of the planets and of the Sun and Moon. [28] This seems to explain the origin of the old alliance between medicine and astrology, so universally preserved until almost within the last century.
Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
Close in meaning to History of medicine; the term itself is not named.
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The opinions which he held as to the origin of medicine, and the necessities in human life which gave rise to it, are such as bespeak the soundness of his views, and the eminently practical bent of his genius. It was the necessity, he says,[39] which men in the first stages of society must have felt of ascertaining the properties of vegetable productions as articles of food that gave rise to the science of…
Hippocrates, The genuine works of Hippocrates, Vol. 1
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The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine. The medicine therefore restored him, and the young doctor receives new courage to proceed in his bold experiments on the lives of his fellow creatures. I believe we may safely affirm, that the inexperienced and presumptuous band of medical tyros let loose upon the world, destroys more of human life in one year, than all the…
Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
Close in meaning to History of medicine; the term itself is not named.
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