Analysis of the difference between medicinal ideologies of Galenists and Paracelsians

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Analysis of the difference between medicinal ideologies of Paracelsians and Galenists

Introduction

In view of Renaissance medicine, there are various data that require public attention. Two of the facts that greatly contribute to affect the health sciences are the entry into force at the university level, with the work of Mondino de 'Luzzi, anatomical illustration of the practice of dissection of the corpse and the tremendous spread of plague. The system of Galen studied medicine begins to crack, despite no lack of eminent doctors also like Jacques Dubois (1478-1555), in Latin Jacobus Sylvius, and Johann Winther von Andernach (1487-1574), who pose as champions of taxing tradition. Not without difficulty the ideas of Berengar Jacopo da Carpi (1470-1550), Nicholas Massa (1485-1569), the same Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) will be able to make headway.

The humanist Giovanni Lamola discovered in Milan in 1427 the text of De medicina of Celsus, thereby contributing to further enrich an already broad overview. While Hippocratic medicine also returns to flourish, the controversy that seems to play the decisive role and significance for medical science of the time and Arabists interested Galenists fiercely divided into methodology sources discussion of foundations and firm practice. However, with the spread of ideas of Vesalius, the battle will prove to be lost by both factions in the game.

Discussion & Analysis

Paracelsus

Paracelsus, one of the authors, perhaps the most loved and hated of all time, for which celebrations and triumphs are offset equally by slander and defamation, appeared in his time as a prophet and a staunch defender of the futuristic, the dominant theme, however, and explicitly manifesto of modern European science. Paracelsus rejected the Galenic medicine, and that based on Avicenna and other authorities commonly accepted belief that the foundation of medical science should not be placed routinely recognized disciplines, such as observation and study of astrological signs for the determination of the celestial astral influences. The humoral theory of discrepancy, the practice or the pharmacopoeia of basic anatomy. Based medicine, according to a doctrine of Hermetic and Neoplatonic descent, is philosophy.

The formulations of Paracelsus recall the speculations of his great contemporary Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim (1486-1535). Both equate astronomy and astrology greatly emphasizing the interdependent relationship between macrocosm and microcosm of the divine human. In both alchemy plays the role of the handmaiden of the sciences, it is deduced from the realm of theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary for the preparation of compounds for therapeutic use, the explanation is the use of analog in the nature of pathological and physiological issues. At the base of everything, the very root of being and universal spirit that gives life to the world is virtue then also by Paracelsus understood as an attitude of human understanding and attention to the patient, which will be true for his followers English and French.

As mentioned, his theories met with both enthusiastic supporters of the fiercest opponents. The success, however, proved enduring and merely living ...