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Reading Early Medicine
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoThe bifurcation of the barber surgeon trade was interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_surgeon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_surgeon I'm wondering though how Scientology-like osteopathy (DOs) ever became legally-equivalent to MDs. Persistence? To be fair, the clinical MD field is and was too often ego-driven over the history of recent decades and only more evidence-based in the past couple of decades.
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- teleforce 2y agoWhat a shame, another work on early medicine history with total disregard of Arabs, Moors, Persians and Muslim scientists' and doctors' contributions. I don't think these historians naively believe and innocently presumed that the very limited knowledge, and most of the time incomplete/wrong diagnostic/treatment of the ancient Greek doctors for example Galen just randomly reappeared corrected and improved to early Renaissance time circa 15th century AD within more than a thousand years of vacuum. For the love of God, in the era of Google Scholar and ChatGPT just perform a proper review in the field of ancient medicine, there's no excuse of ignorance on the great contributions of but Al-Razi (Rhazes), Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis), Ibn al-Nafis, Zuhr (Avenzoar), and many others that contributed significantly to humanity not only in medicine.