Ancient & Medieval Medicine: Crash Course History of Science #9
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Leo
Trotula is a group of three texts originally without author names, including a Latin compilation that gathered some of the therapies proposed by Trota of Salerno. Her fame was well spread as far as France and England by the 13th century. Being a rough ensemble of texts without much appreciated identification, Trotula was reworked in new editions including by people centuries later who didn't know they were initially three different texts and some confusion led to even mislabeling its date from medieval to ancient. The first text only mentions male sources: Hippocrates, Oribasius, Dioscorides, Paulus, and Justinus. The second text is the only one of the three that mostly overlaps another known paper which bores an author name: Trota of Salerno, which immediately led to the name Trotula, 'little work of Trota'. The 2nd text itself didn't have Trota's name though, and was apparently a modified copy by another autor. The ensemble spread out of Italy and more confusion ensued as now people started assuming the name of the author was literally Trotula, an ancient sounding name, who wrote all texts. In the third text the author refers to himself with a masculine pronoun and he credits specific practices to Muslim women. Due to a progressive and accumulated lack of knowledge and confusion, as new editions tried to fit assumptions for consistency, the author or authors were in practice given as unknown before Modern times. Then in the 1970s, second-wave feminism rediscovered Trotula and started propagating the conspiracy of Trota being -systematically written out of history-. This conspiracy is of course taken to be beneficial to justify the socialist agenda the Green Brothers make sure to push here without you noticing it. You can read wikipedia's articles on Trota of Salermo and Trotula better, more accurate information than what you get here.
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Trotula is a group of three texts originally without author names, including a Latin compilation that gathered some of the therapies proposed by Trota of Salerno. Her fame was well spread as far as France and England by the 13th century. Being a rough ensemble of texts without much appreciated identification, Trotula was reworked in new editions including by people centuries later who didn't know they were initially three different texts and some confusion led to even mislabeling its date from medieval to ancient. The first text only mentions male sources: Hippocrates, Oribasius, Dioscorides, Paulus, and Justinus. The second text is the only one of the three that mostly overlaps another known paper which bores an author name: Trota of Salerno, which immediately led to the name Trotula, 'little work of Trota'. The 2nd text itself didn't have Trota's name though, and was apparently a modified copy by another autor. The ensemble spread out of Italy and more confusion ensued as now people started assuming the name of the author was literally Trotula, an ancient sounding name, who wrote all texts. In the third text the author refers to himself with a masculine pronoun and he credits specific practices to Muslim women. Due to a progressive and accumulated lack of knowledge and confusion, as new editions tried to fit assumptions for consistency, the author or authors were in practice given as unknown before Modern times. Then in the 1970s, second-wave feminism rediscovered Trotula and started propagating the conspiracy of Trota being -systematically written out of history-. This conspiracy is of course taken to be beneficial to justify the socialist agenda the Green Brothers make sure to push here without you noticing it. You can read wikipedia's articles on Trota of Salermo and Trotula better, more accurate information than what you get here.
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KIM
I don't undrestand what gives him and the people who are commenting in a funny way the right to make a mockery of what the ancients invented! You just don't have the right to do so, we currently live in a world which medicine is no longer a nobel art intended to cure the sick and discover about our lives instead is a meritocracy aiming to make millions of dollars to the gouverment and pharmaceutical industry. never in the history of man kind we had such neurological diseases (Parkinson, adhd) our brains are damaged by sodium florid and electromagnetic waves, our nervous systems are disrupted by halides, and you guys make fun of healing! The elements he was talking about whether in western tradition such as in alchemy or greek tradition or in the east in Ayurveda serve as an allegory for both physical and psychological aspects such as intuition and feelings. all of this is important cause our bodies are not only organs and blood and bones we're also energy and when energy is unbalanced we are exposed to illness and disease. ancient medecine worked wonders and we should appreciate it and learn from it and apply it let along mock it
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I don't undrestand what gives him and the people who are commenting in a funny way the right to make a mockery of what the ancients invented! You just don't have the right to do so, we currently live in a world which medicine is no longer a nobel art intended to cure the sick and discover about our lives instead is a meritocracy aiming to make millions of dollars to the gouverment and pharmaceutical industry. never in the history of man kind we had such neurological diseases (Parkinson, adhd) our brains are damaged by sodium florid and electromagnetic waves, our nervous systems are disrupted by halides, and you guys make fun of healing! The elements he was talking about whether in western tradition such as in alchemy or greek tradition or in the east in Ayurveda serve as an allegory for both physical and psychological aspects such as intuition and feelings. all of this is important cause our bodies are not only organs and blood and bones we're also energy and when energy is unbalanced we are exposed to illness and disease. ancient medecine worked wonders and we should appreciate it and learn from it and apply it let along mock it
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Duan
Too much of one of the 4 humors, namely Black bile would cause melancholia.
If I were constipated I'd be sad as well lol. But balance in important as is preventive medicine as well as proper diet
and exercise. The balance of the 5 elements are important.
This is why we take vitamins, they have your metals like copper zinc iron, and minerals
That is the earth. Drink water stay warm and exercise that is the fire and breathe air which is the intake of the air element. Here all the 5 elements speaks to a modern western use of the 5 elements but the asians understand the true science of balancing these 5 elements and reading the imbalance just by feeling your pulse and the chi with they're hand.
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Too much of one of the 4 humors, namely Black bile would cause melancholia.
If I were constipated I'd be sad as well lol. But balance in important as is preventive medicine as well as proper diet
and exercise. The balance of the 5 elements are important.
This is why we take vitamins, they have your metals like copper zinc iron, and minerals
That is the earth. Drink water stay warm and exercise that is the fire and breathe air which is the intake of the air element. Here all the 5 elements speaks to a modern western use of the 5 elements but the asians understand the true science of balancing these 5 elements and reading the imbalance just by feeling your pulse and the chi with they're hand.
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Cool
Once again with this -whitewashing- of history! IMHOTEP of Egypt (a black African. yes, the original Egyptians were BLACK) was the -real- father of Medicine. He laid the foundation for the standard of treatment we see today! He was around 2, 000 yrs. before Hippocrates was even born! in fact Hippocrates studied at one of his schools! IMHOTEP was written out of European history, so that Hippocrates can get the credit for most of IMHOTEP's genius. Don't get me wrong, Hippocrates was a very good -Student- of Medicine, and should be regarded as the -SON- of modern day Medicine. But the -FATHER- of modern day medicine, is IMHOTEP all day! Look him up. do your own research.
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Once again with this -whitewashing- of history! IMHOTEP of Egypt (a black African. yes, the original Egyptians were BLACK) was the -real- father of Medicine. He laid the foundation for the standard of treatment we see today! He was around 2, 000 yrs. before Hippocrates was even born! in fact Hippocrates studied at one of his schools! IMHOTEP was written out of European history, so that Hippocrates can get the credit for most of IMHOTEP's genius. Don't get me wrong, Hippocrates was a very good -Student- of Medicine, and should be regarded as the -SON- of modern day Medicine. But the -FATHER- of modern day medicine, is IMHOTEP all day! Look him up. do your own research.
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Jon
5: 56 just saying Marcus Aurelius was a total badass who had a an immense understanding of discipline and self control. He was probably the most powerful and rich person in Rome during the time, but, he still had such a strong control over himself that he never abused his power (at least from stories I-ve heard of him. If you have the time I would recommend you read his book -Meditations- it had an immense impact on me and can help you have great control over your actions and reactions to to things. Anyways that-s all I had to say I just like the fact that he was very briefly referenced in this video and figured I could leave a comment about him.
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5: 56 just saying Marcus Aurelius was a total badass who had a an immense understanding of discipline and self control. He was probably the most powerful and rich person in Rome during the time, but, he still had such a strong control over himself that he never abused his power (at least from stories I-ve heard of him. If you have the time I would recommend you read his book -Meditations- it had an immense impact on me and can help you have great control over your actions and reactions to to things. Anyways that-s all I had to say I just like the fact that he was very briefly referenced in this video and figured I could leave a comment about him.
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Aspiah
All living things with in this system are composed of five elements: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood. Life was linked to the movement of special fluids, which was the objects of medical treatments. Life was ultimately built but of a smaller number of elements and good health meant balancing fluids and elements in the right way. And also Trotula became foundational to gynecology and all other topics related to women's health. But you might got know that this foundation text on women's health was written by a woman. Because her identity was systematically written out of history until the late 20th century.
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All living things with in this system are composed of five elements: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood. Life was linked to the movement of special fluids, which was the objects of medical treatments. Life was ultimately built but of a smaller number of elements and good health meant balancing fluids and elements in the right way. And also Trotula became foundational to gynecology and all other topics related to women's health. But you might got know that this foundation text on women's health was written by a woman. Because her identity was systematically written out of history until the late 20th century.
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KingSoutH
I don't understand why mention China here? Bodhidharma was the most important person for China. if this person didn't visit China, means there is no such kungfu self defense or medicine would exist in China. i see very clearly that how people use media to spread good bad fake anything that will make them benefit. make the truth disappear and thinking they had successful destroy the truth. no such thing that dharma would let wrong doing win over. stop dream. absolutely no way. time comes it will make it work.
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I don't understand why mention China here? Bodhidharma was the most important person for China. if this person didn't visit China, means there is no such kungfu self defense or medicine would exist in China. i see very clearly that how people use media to spread good bad fake anything that will make them benefit. make the truth disappear and thinking they had successful destroy the truth. no such thing that dharma would let wrong doing win over. stop dream. absolutely no way. time comes it will make it work.
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Stav
Just a note. Hippocrates actually means the one with the power of horse or just horse power from hippos (horse) + kratos (power. Also Ancient Greek medicine was more advanced than the video presents. Greek physicians performed tonsils removal ops (with a hooks that ripped the tonsils out. treated some sort of cranial wounds (there was a specific tool for that, called skull screw. as well as ops to remove limbs among other things (in no chronological order)
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Just a note. Hippocrates actually means the one with the power of horse or just horse power from hippos (horse) + kratos (power. Also Ancient Greek medicine was more advanced than the video presents. Greek physicians performed tonsils removal ops (with a hooks that ripped the tonsils out. treated some sort of cranial wounds (there was a specific tool for that, called skull screw. as well as ops to remove limbs among other things (in no chronological order)
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Rowshon
You forgot to mention the most important Arab physician Al-Zahrawi, who invented modern surgery and some of his works are still used today in surgery, and even important is that from reading his books, Europe slowly began to borrow books on medicines from the east in masses and slowly began to come out of the dark ages.
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You forgot to mention the most important Arab physician Al-Zahrawi, who invented modern surgery and some of his works are still used today in surgery, and even important is that from reading his books, Europe slowly began to borrow books on medicines from the east in masses and slowly began to come out of the dark ages.
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Kumar
India. A form of cataract surgery, now known as 'couching, was found in ancient India and subsequently introduced to other countries by the Indian physician Sushruta (ca. 6rd century BC, who described it in his work the Compendium of Sushruta or Sushruta Samhita
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India. A form of cataract surgery, now known as 'couching, was found in ancient India and subsequently introduced to other countries by the Indian physician Sushruta (ca. 6rd century BC, who described it in his work the Compendium of Sushruta or Sushruta Samhita
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