Neo-hippocratism is a rational and mechanic method to explain pathological phenomena and discover the causes of diseases. Bernardino Ramazzini uses Hippocratic empirical observation to investigate the relations between the alterations of the air - due to mephitic vapours, of organic and inorganic origin - and the development of pathological processes. His notion of corruption of the atmosphere as the origin of epidemics and specific diseases, and that of prevention as the main strategy of modern medicine, is developed in medical literature and in the public medicine projects of the end of the Seventeenth century.
L'ippocratismo di Bernardino Ramazzini. Per la costruzione di una “medicina sociale” / Marinozzi, Silvia; Conforti, Maria; Gazzaniga, Valentina. - In: MEDICINA NEI SECOLI. - ISSN 0025-7877. - STAMPA. - 23:2(2011), pp. 465-493.
L'ippocratismo di Bernardino Ramazzini. Per la costruzione di una “medicina sociale”
MARINOZZI, SILVIA;CONFORTI, Maria;GAZZANIGA, Valentina
2011
Abstract
Neo-hippocratism is a rational and mechanic method to explain pathological phenomena and discover the causes of diseases. Bernardino Ramazzini uses Hippocratic empirical observation to investigate the relations between the alterations of the air - due to mephitic vapours, of organic and inorganic origin - and the development of pathological processes. His notion of corruption of the atmosphere as the origin of epidemics and specific diseases, and that of prevention as the main strategy of modern medicine, is developed in medical literature and in the public medicine projects of the end of the Seventeenth century.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
