. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. r efforts to introduce true unityof faith. In these efforts the industrious Moors wereexcluded, under Philip III. In art they maintained theirstanding,—attaining, in fact, in Murillo, the acme of theirfame; but in other branches of industry they rapidlydegenerated. Students of history will readily understandhow little leisure the Spaniards had at this time to devoteto the cultivation of science, including medicine and the two men who are mentioned during this century asSpan
. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. r efforts to introduce true unityof faith. In these efforts the industrious Moors wereexcluded, under Philip III. In art they maintained theirstanding,—attaining, in fact, in Murillo, the acme of theirfame; but in other branches of industry they rapidlydegenerated. Students of history will readily understandhow little leisure the Spaniards had at this time to devoteto the cultivation of science, including medicine and the two men who are mentioned during this century asSpanish surgeons, namely, Almeida and Ayala, we knowpractically nothing. The Germans gained no such store of knowledge fromtheir experience during the Thirty Years War as didthe French during their campaigns. The barber-surgeons,for the most part, still reigned supreme, and their guildcontained some men of ability and independence of most notable man of the times was Fabricius Hildanus(1560-1634). Of him, however, I have already spoken asbelonging rather to the previous century. He was the first. Fig. 24.— Straight Saws and Divers Scraping Tools, Wherewith theskill, Being Rotten ok Having a Fissure, is Scraped Away. 7 and 77. straight saws. 777 to A various forms of scraping tools. (From The Chj/rurgeona Store-home, by Jnhannes Scultetus, a famous physician and surgeon ofUlme iu Suevia. English translation published in London in 1674.) 180 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. learned German surgeon recognized and esteemed as suchby his contemporaries. He was distinguished, also, as anoculist and aurist, and removed a particle of iron from thecornea by means of a magnet. A man of great operativegenius, and a born surgeon, was Purmann (1648-1721),who greatly lamented the low condition of surgery in Ger-many, and regarded a knowledge of anatomy as the primerequisite for the surgeon; he employed the speculum in thediagnosis of syphilis, although it has been Ricords boastthat this w
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