Turquet de Mayerne as Baroque Physician
Subtitle: The Art of Medical Portraiture (Clio Medica 65) (Clio Medica 65 / The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine)
Publisher: Rodopi Bv Editions
Published: December 6, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9789042011410
Subjects: Medicine; General; History; History: World
Description: For fifty years, Theodore Turquet de Mayerne served as a royal physician in France and then in England. Historians have long recognised him as a brilliant practitioner and chemical Galenist, but this book is the first major study of his remarkable Latin casebooks, the Ephemerides Morborum (Diaries of Disease). Interpreting the casebooks in the light of Mayerne's own theoretical writings and of contemporaries such as Jean Fernel, the book is a cultural history of medical perception. It shows how Mayerne crafted a medical portrait for his patients, moving from evaluation, through diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutics, and focuses on those moments when theory and practice merged to form an integrated medical outlook that served as the basis for action. Convinced that his innovations had the sanction of Galen and Hippocrates, Mayerne added chemical principles to humoral medicine, a greater empiricism to a more rational approach to medicine, and an interventionist therapeutics to.