HoP 362 - Just What the Doctor Ordered - Renaissance Medicine
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
00:00
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.
Transcript
Play full episode
