Making Physicians

Making Physicians

Tradition, Teaching, and Trials at Leiden University, 1575-1639

Ragland, Evan R.

Brill

04/2022

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Introduction: Bodies of Knowledge in the Late Renaissance

?1 Following Galen to Find the Seats and Causes of Disease

?2 Disease Displayed in Private, Public, and Clinical Anatomies

?3 Reconstructing Intellectual Microcosms

?4 Pedagogy and Practices

?5 Making Medicines from Books, Gardens, and Chymistry

?6 Experience, Empiricism, and Experiment

?7 Plan of Chapters



1 Contexts for the Medical Curriculum

?1 Medicine for a Young Republic in the 1575 Founding

?2 University, City, State

?3 The Harvest of Trials from Earlier Sixteenth-Century Academic Medicine

?4 Experience and Experiment in Early Leiden Mixed Mathematics and Engineering

?5 The Humanist, Practical Education of Medical Professors

?6 Early Medical Curricula

?7 Conclusions



2 Ideals of Learning and Reading

?1 Ideals of Curing Bodies by Reason and Experience

?2 The Virtues of Disputation for Learning and Exams

?3 Study Guides for Sharpening the Ingenium (Wit) of the Brain

?4 Student Life and the Vices of Embodied Learners

?5 Conclusions



3 Lecturing about Philosophical Bodies

?1 Core Philosophy and Theory

?2 Basic Principles vs. Hope for Certainty

?3 Galen on Faculties, Matter, and Souls

?4 Galen among Ancient Sources on "Powers" or Faculties

?5 Early Modern Medical Discussions of Faculties

?6 Conclusions



4 Learning to Make Medicines: Reading, Viewing, Tasting, and Testing

?1 Fire and Transmutation

?2 Chymical Teaching in the Lecture Hall

?3 Cultivating Knowledge and Medicinal Simples in the Garden

?4 Naturalists Knowing Plants by Experience and Experiment

?5 God's Medicines and Models of Making Trials

?6 Galen's Models for Knowing Drugs and Making Trials

?7 Medieval and Early Modern Debates over Sensing and Knowing Medicinal Faculties

?8 Making and Knowing Medicines with Johannes Heurnius' New Method

?9 Conclusions



5 Knowing and Treating the Diseased Body

?1 The Malfunctioning Seats of Diseases

?2 Seats of Diseases after Galen

?3 Knowing Material and Other Causes of Diseases

?4 Teaching Students to Treat the Faulty Part

?5 Localizing Diseases in Students' Disputations

?6 Conclusions



6 Disease Displayed in Public and Private Anatomies

?1 Anatomy Serving the Practice of Physicians and Surgeons

?2 Piety and Decorum

?3 Disease Displayed in Public and Private Anatomies

?4 Generation and Murder

?5 Cutting to the Causes of Disease and Death

?6 Conclusions



7 Innovation and Clinical Anatomies

?1 The Pulse Controversy and Anatomical Innovation

?2 Early Clinical Training and Anatomies

?3 Founding Regular Bedside Learning at the Hospital

?4 Causes, Histories, and Therapy Displayed in Diseased Bodies

?5 Diseases and Remedies from Across the Dutch Empire

?6 Tracking Diseases by Clinical Signs and Post-Mortem Evidence

?7 Making New Knowledge of Phthisis (Consumption)

?8 Later Leiden Pedagogy and a New Theory of Phthisis

?9 Conclusions



Conclusion: A Microcosm of Medical Learning and Practices



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History of medicine; alchemy; anatomy; chemistry; chymistry; clinical practice; clinical teaching; history of science; history of universities; intellectual history