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The Emergence of Modern Medicine from 1648 to 1948

By Maxinedannatt
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    Modern Europe

  • "Demonstration of Joints As a System of Levers"

    "Demonstration of Joints As a System of Levers"
    Wellcome Images, A print by Italian physiologist and mathematician, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608-1679) from his book On the Motion of Animals, which demonstrates human joints as being like a system of levers. This new mathematical perception of the body that arose was typical of the Scientific Revolution which helped develop a scientific view of the world.

  • "Advice to the People in General with Regard to their Health"

    "Advice to the People in General with Regard to their Health"
    Gutenburg Files Extracts from the Introduction of the manuel written at the height of Enlightened thought by Swiss doctor, Samuel Auguste David Tissot (1728-1797). The book reflects the anti-authoritarian views of the Englightenment by encouraging the dissemination of medical knowledge other than through a physician.

  • "Father Thames Introducing His Offspring to the Fair City of London"

    "Father Thames Introducing His Offspring to the Fair City of London"
    [Father Thames](www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/21cc/publichealth/sources/source15/punch2.html)Political cartoon published in the satirical English magazine, "Punch" which makes a comment on the contaminated state of the water in the Thames and it's role in the spread of epidemics such as Diptheria, Scrofula and Cholera. This demonstrates the dire health situation at the time as a result of urbanization which made sanitary reforms and public health reforms a necessity.

  • "Act to Regulate the Qualifications of Practitioners in Medicine and Surgery"

    "Act to Regulate the Qualifications of Practitioners in Medicine and Surgery"
    United Kingdom National Archives Sections from an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which aimed at establishing a set of requirements for entering the medical profession. This type of professionalization demonstrated the rise of a new central and controlling government in response to the urban boom provoked by the Industrial Revolution.

  • "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine"

    "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine"
    Published in France, this is an extract from the Introduction of Claude Bernard's (1813-1878) book, written after the Clinical Revolution. The book argues against the numerical approach to medicine which emerged after the creation of Paris Hospitals in the time of the Revolution. Bernard pushes for a more experimental approach to medicine.

  • "The Inheritance of Racial Features (Primarily Dinaric)"

    "The Inheritance of Racial Features (Primarily Dinaric)"
    Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives A Eugenics poster published as part of a series called "Theory of Inheritance and Racial Hygiene" under the rule of the Third Riech in Germany. This piece of propaganda attempts to "scientifically" demonstrate the passing down of non-Aryan racial features. In this way, the medical movement of Eugenics justified racist policies in the 20th century.