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HoP 362 - Just What the Doctor Ordered - Renaissance Medicine

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Bad Old Days of Medicine

The university trained doctor would have studied physics or natural philosophy, and before that, logic. Pietso Dabano explained why doctors needed to become acquainted with these fields. Niccolo Leonicino wrote a treatise called On the Formative Power which rigorously adhered to Galen's account of embryology.

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