[Sca-cooks] [MEDMED-L] AW: Spices and Medicine: From Historical Obsession to Research...

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Weren't Galen and Hippocrates European? And didn't their ideas continue to  
have a profound influence? If Europe was in decline intellectually, I'm not 
sure  "Johnny-come-lately" is the right term. But certainly the use of 
spices in  medicine had its own history in the West, even if it was refined and 
perfected  in the East.
 
Me, I'm more dismayed to see academics perpetuating the tendency to  
over-Latinize perfectly serviceable words like "advance" - do we EVER need  
"advancement"?

"How has Europe’s fascination with spices as both food and medicine  
contributed to the global exchange and advancement of medical knowledge from  
medieval times to today? "
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

A  History of Coffee and Other Refreshments in Early Modern France 
by  Pierre Le Grand d'Aussy  

 
In a message dated 4/9/2013 6:02:26 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
Paul-David.Buell at CHARITE.DE writes:

To answer the question, no Europe was very much a backward,  
johnny-come-lately. It was actions outside of Europe that were governing  especially from 
the Middle East with the Indian Ocean as the power house.  Silly 
Europocentric idea for a conference. Shesh. Paul D. Buell