. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. ases where ithad a happy issue for both mother and child. He evenreported the most remarkable case of all,—that of a womanwho was six times delivered by this operation, and whoperished in the seventh confinement, because, as he states,the surgeon who had been accustomed to operate on herwas absent. Unfortunately, this case is not authenticated. Nothing shows better how the art of observation andaccurate description of phenomena had progressed at thetime of the revival of letters than
. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. ases where ithad a happy issue for both mother and child. He evenreported the most remarkable case of all,—that of a womanwho was six times delivered by this operation, and whoperished in the seventh confinement, because, as he states,the surgeon who had been accustomed to operate on herwas absent. Unfortunately, this case is not authenticated. Nothing shows better how the art of observation andaccurate description of phenomena had progressed at thetime of the revival of letters than the number of new dis-eases of which the authors of that period make , for the first time did one read of whooping-cough,miliaria, scurvy, plica polonica, syphilis, and raphania. Itis scarcely credible that these diseases fell upon Europe atthis particular time. It is more probable that they had amore ancient existence and were not recognized. Even to-day medical men are divided in their ownopinions on the origin of syphilis, some believing that it PPOFRES A MXTfRpER tf< ,, .. Fig. 19.—Amputation Instruments. This plate shows knives, saws, and pliers, and also those by which haemorrhagewas arrested without use of the cautery. (From the Works on Chiritrgerie, by Jacques Guillemeau, chirurgeon ordinaryto tli King of France. 1649. 136 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE was developed spontaneously in Europe toward the closeof the sixteenth century, others that it was imported fromthe New World, others that it had a most ancient origin,and others yet that it represented a degenerated form ofleprosy. Certain it is that syphilis appeared almost simulta-neously in all parts of Europe,—at Bologna, Halle,Brunswick, in Lombardy, Apulia, Auvergne, and so attributed this sudden outbreak to an ex-traordinary inundation that occurred in all parts of Italytoward the close of the fourteenth century, and supportedhis views with the authority of Hippocrates an
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