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History of Medicine

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Guide Notes: no qualif; Manual 18.14+; policy: Manual 32.4-.6; hist check tags: Manual 18.14+; Avicenna (Ibn Sina): see note under MEDICINE, ARABIC; DF: HIST MED
History of Medicine Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Barber Surgeons - In the late Middle Ages barbers who also let blood, sold unguents, pulled teeth, applied cups, and gave enemas. They generally had the right to practice surgery. They began to acquire importance about 1100, when the monks, who required the barber's services for the tonsure, also had recourse to them for blood-letting, a practice required by ecclesiastic law. By the 18th century barbers continued to practice minor surgery and dentistry and many famous surgeons acquired their skill in the shops of barbers. (From Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, pp402, 568, 658)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Grave Robbing - The stealing of corpses after burial, especially for medical dissection. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in the absence of laws governing the acquisition of dissecting material for the study of anatomy, the needs of anatomy classes were met by surreptitious methods: body-snatching and grave robbing. The infamous practice of "burking", murder to procure bodies for dissection, was given the name of a rascal named W. Burke, hanged in Edinburgh in 1829. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed; from Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 4th ed, p447; from Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2d ed, p676)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition History of Medicine, Ancient - The period of the history of medicine before 500 A.D.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition History of Medicine, Early Modern - The period of the history of medicine from 1451 through 1600 A.D. HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 15TH CENT. and HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 16TH CENT. are also available.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition History of Medicine, Medieval - The period of the history of medicine from 500 through 1450 A.D.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition History of Medicine, Modern - The period of the history of medicine from 1601 A.D. to the present.

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