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HoP 402 - Life is Not Enough - Medicine in Renaissance France

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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What Is Divine Within the Art of Medicine?

Opium has a soporific effect, which we expect to relate to cooling. Yet, it has this soparific effect, since the body is cooler during sleep. Some of the leyden doctors inferred that the powers of drugs cannot be investigated using sensation - or at least not always. With this, he echoed a real life doctor of paris, jean fernel, who authored a long treatise whose very title was on the hidden causes of things. It was published in 15 forty eight with a dedication to the king henry the second.

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