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The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913
Evolution of Modern Medicine: a series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913
By Sir William Osler, Bart MD FRS
Contents
I-Introduction
II-Greek Medicine
III-Mediaeval Medicine
IV-The Renaissance and the Rise of Anatomy and Physiology
V-The Rise and Development of Modern Medicine
VI-The Rise of Preventive Medicine
Preface
The manuscript of Sir William Osier's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in April, 1913, on the Silliman Foundation, was immediately turned in to the Yale University Press for publication. Duly set in type, proofs in galley form had been submitted to him and despite countless interruptions he had already corrected and revised a number of the galleys when the great war came. But with the war on, he threw himself with energy and devotion into the military and public duties which devolved upon him and so never completed his proof-reading and intended alterations. After the death of his son, mortally wounded in action in the Ypres salient, he gradually lost heart for many things he had set his mind and hand to do. The careful corrections which Sir William made in the earlier galleys show that the lectures were dictated, in the first instance, as loose memoranda for oral delivery rather than as finished compositions for the eye, while maintaining throughout the logical continuity and the engaging con moto which were so characteristic of his literary style. In revising the lectures for publication, therefore, the editors have merely endeavored to carry out, with care and befitting reverence, the indications supplied in the earlier galleys by Sir William himself. In supplying dates and references which were lacking, his preferences as to editions and readings have been borne in mind. The slight alterations made, the adaptation of the text to the eye, detract nothing from the original freshness of the work.
The author saw clearly and felt deeply that the men who have made an idea or discovery viable and valuable to humanity are the deserving men; he has made the great names shine out, without any depreciation of the important work of lesser men and without cluttering up his narrative with the tedious prehistory of great discoveries or with shrill claims to priority. Of his skill in differentiating the sundry "strains" of medicine, there is specific witness in each section. Osler's wide culture and control of the best available literature of his subject permitted him to range the ampler aether of Greek medicine or the earth-fettered schools of today with equal mastery; there is no quickset of pedantry between the author and the reader.
For the mind depends so much on...
By Sir William Osler, Bart MD FRS
Contents
I-Introduction
II-Greek Medicine
III-Mediaeval Medicine
IV-The Renaissance and the Rise of Anatomy and Physiology
V-The Rise and Development of Modern Medicine
VI-The Rise of Preventive Medicine
Preface
The manuscript of Sir William Osier's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in April, 1913, on the Silliman Foundation, was immediately turned in to the Yale University Press for publication. Duly set in type, proofs in galley form had been submitted to him and despite countless interruptions he had already corrected and revised a number of the galleys when the great war came. But with the war on, he threw himself with energy and devotion into the military and public duties which devolved upon him and so never completed his proof-reading and intended alterations. After the death of his son, mortally wounded in action in the Ypres salient, he gradually lost heart for many things he had set his mind and hand to do. The careful corrections which Sir William made in the earlier galleys show that the lectures were dictated, in the first instance, as loose memoranda for oral delivery rather than as finished compositions for the eye, while maintaining throughout the logical continuity and the engaging con moto which were so characteristic of his literary style. In revising the lectures for publication, therefore, the editors have merely endeavored to carry out, with care and befitting reverence, the indications supplied in the earlier galleys by Sir William himself. In supplying dates and references which were lacking, his preferences as to editions and readings have been borne in mind. The slight alterations made, the adaptation of the text to the eye, detract nothing from the original freshness of the work.
The author saw clearly and felt deeply that the men who have made an idea or discovery viable and valuable to humanity are the deserving men; he has made the great names shine out, without any depreciation of the important work of lesser men and without cluttering up his narrative with the tedious prehistory of great discoveries or with shrill claims to priority. Of his skill in differentiating the sundry "strains" of medicine, there is specific witness in each section. Osler's wide culture and control of the best available literature of his subject permitted him to range the ampler aether of Greek medicine or the earth-fettered schools of today with equal mastery; there is no quickset of pedantry between the author and the reader.
For the mind depends so much on...
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Published May 17, 2012
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William Osler
334 books42 followersSir William Osler, 1st Baronet, was a Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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September 29, 2022
မနုဿဗေဒ ဆိုင်ရာ လေ့လာမှုမှာ ကိုးကွယ်ယုံကြည်မှုနဲ့ ဆေးပညာ နှစ်ခုရဲ့ ဆက်နွယ်မှုကို သမိုင်းတင်ခေတ်အစောပိုင်းလူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်းတွေမှာ တွေ့ရမယ်။ လူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်းဟာ မျဉ်းဖြောင့်အတိုင်း ဖြစ်ပေါ်တိုးတက်နေတာမဟုတ် တစ်ခေတ်နဲ့ တစ်ခေတ်ကြားမှာ အဆက်အစပ် ပြတ်တောက်မှုတွေရှိတယ်။ သောမတ်စ် ခွန်းစကားအရ ဆိုရင်တော့ paradigm shift ဖူကိုးအရ ဆိုရင်တော့ epistemic shift (epistemic shift အယူအဆက paradigm shift ထက် ပိုပြီးကျယ်ပြန့်တယ်လို့ ဆိုကြတယ် ဒါကကြုံလို့ပြောတာ) brain surgery လိုမျိုးကို ကျောက်ခေတ်လူသားတွေရဲ့ ရုပ်ကြွင်းတွေမှာ သဲလွန်စအနေနဲ့ တွေ့နိုင်ပေမယ့် . Modern brain surgery နဲ့ အယူအဆပိုင်းအရကော procedure မှာကော အလွန့်အလွန်ကွာခြားသွားပြီဖြစ်သလို malariaအပေါ် ကိုရိုမန်တွေရှုမြင်ပုံနဲ့ ခေတ်သစ်ဆေးပညာရဲ့ ငှက်ဖျားရောဂါအပေါ်ကိုင်တွယ်ဖြေရှင်းပုံက လားလားမျှကွာခြားသွားပြီဖြစ်တယ်။ မြန်မာစာပေမှာဆိုရင် သိန်းဖေမြင့်ရဲ့ တက်ခေတ်နတ်ဆိုးက နှစ်ဆယ့်သစ်ရာစု စာဖတ်သူတွေအတွက် သိပ်ပြီး relevant မဖြစ်တော့သလိုပါဘဲ။ သို့ပေသိ Osler ရဲ့ လက်ချာတွေကတော့ အချိန်ရဲ့ တိုက်စားမှုမှာ မျှောပါမသွားဘဲ ခေတ်မှီနေဆဲ ပါဘဲ။
May 28, 2024
There were certain sections which were obviously and demonstrably false which the author purported to be fact. It therefore made it impossible for me to feel educated on sections of which I had no knowledge, since I could no longer trust the author's veracity by his previous false statements on subjects upon which I did have knowledge. The author is also extremely anti-religious to the point of belligerent fanaticism, and so I would just encourage you to seek this knowledge elsewhere and from a less biased source.
June 14, 2019
I can absolutely imagine that these would have been brilliant when heard in person at the lecture.
July 3, 2016
The book "The evolution of Modern medicine" drives back to 10th century around how the medicine started getting evolved in the world and how each thesis added up to the current modern medicine. When we say medicine it doesn't mean the theories that are in scientific means. It means also how it evolved from astronomy, astrology and black magic. It gives good idea on people who are still the foundation for the modern medicine built such as galen, hippocrates, vaselius, fabricius and all. Had great insight on the advent and spread of medicine culture. Altogether Great read.
March 21, 2016
A surprisingly interesting read, the type of read that sends you in every direction following up on ideas and historical persons mentioned by Osler.
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