U13 SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND TECHNOLOGY Flashcards
What is the concept of morbid species?
The symptoms of the illness
What is the morbid species caused by?
An anatomical lesion
In the renaissance they
opened bodies of those who died and did anatomy on them
What were the 2 objectives covered by diagnosis?
- Determination of the morbid species
- Establishment of the AL (anatomic lesion) causing it
What were the consequences of the practices made in Renaissance?
- Autopsy as evidence of good diagnosis in clinical practice
- New intention with autopsies and new attitude towards AL (anatomic lesion)
What was the anatomo-clinical mentality?
the central and basic reality of the disease consists on finding the AL that determines it
What was the best approach for turning medical knowledge into a true science?
The scientific knowledge of anatomical lesions
What were the 2 key points of the symptomatic picture in the Renaissance?
- The ‘functional deficit’ derived from the AL
- The ‘reaction’ of the organism to the AL
Between what two things was there a systematic relationship that came with the change in diagnostic and use of instruments?
Between clinical observation of patients and anatomic lessions found at autopsy
Until well into the 19th C…
medicine depended on practical experience and not on laboratory knowledge
What is the pathophysiological mentality?
disease as a dynamic disorder of functions
What helped the developmentof scietnfic explanation?
Physics and Chemistry
Diseases were studied as
energetic (physical) or material (chemicals) processes
What is clinical thermometry?
Systematic study of the evolution of temperature in different diseases
Chemical pathology?
Detection of a disease before the observable symptoms appear