Giorgio Armeno Baglivi - Reappraisal of a seventeenth century physician scientist
Garabed Eknoyan
Abstract:The seventeenth century was an exciting transformative period of creativity in the generation of new medical knowledge. It was then that the scholasticism of the past was formally replaced by the new spirit of inquiry, experimentation, quantification, and validation that had originated in the Scientific Revolution of the previous century. It was then that within the prevailing notions of iatromechanics that anatomical observations at postmortem were linked to clinical symptoms of diseases and launched the disc… Show more
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