[Sca-cooks] Misconceptions about Medieval Medicine

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Mar 16, 2006, at 5:25 PM, marilyn traber 011221 wrote:

> Quite an interesting article about Medieval medicine, with quite a  
> bit on the
> humors and perceptions of the time. Also, if you substitute "cookery"
> for "medicine" in the first couple of paragraphs, you get an  
> interesting
> perspective on how some of us have learned about Medieval thinking.
>
>
> http://www.strangehorizons.com/2003/20030317/medicine.shtml
>
> Phlip

Anybody wishing (no, I'm not talking about anyone here or the author  
of the article, just speaking generally) to poke fun at the  
whimsicality of humoral medicine and leeches and such, can at least  
discuss the success rate of acupuncture, acupressure, and the vast  
amount of herbal and humoral medicine still being practiced, even in  
hospitals, in China.

The tendency of some ignorant moderns to dismiss those silly ancients  
and their unsophisticated medicine pretty much flies in the face of  
the modern medicine of a significant portion of the world.

Adamantius


"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
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