History of Medicine, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from History of Medicine, Vol. 2 of 2 Viewed from the standpoint of evolution as a whole the goal which mediæval medicine sought to attain was the collation and elaboration of ancient tradition. Owing to unfavourable influences the West required far longer time for the attainment of this end than did Byzantium or the Islamic nations. Occidental medical art, which had shown signs of deterioration and decadence even in the later centuries of Imperial Rome, dragged out its existence through more than five hundred years of the Middle Ages before manifesting any tendency towards emancipation from the bondage of this intellectual stagnation; it attained to the dignity of a science only at that later epoch when the pre-eminence of the Arabs had begun to fail. Western medicine in the early Middle Ages is, strictly speaking, hardly a subject for the historian of science who would present a coherent picture of progressive events - at the utmost side-lights can be thrown upon medical conditions and literature, in as far as the very scanty information at our disposal makes this possible. Inadequacy of scientific principles, total stagnation of investigation, practice devoid of any lofty outlook, stereotyped and primitive, these are the characteristics of this eras healing art, an art which in its manifestations is almost reminiscent of the earliest stages of medical evolution. Gloomy as is the impression left upon the mind, the close connection of medicine with civilisation as a whole and its historic destiny come unmistakably to the fore, and its fate in this mournful period is bound up more intimately than usual with the spirit of the times. In order to bring the degradation of medical art into relationship with the character of the epoch, no comprehensive description of the historical background is necessary, it will suffice briefly to indicate the most salient events of general importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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