The antidotal treatment of disease / by John Parkin.

  • Parkin, John, 1801-1886.
Date:
1878
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Credit: The antidotal treatment of disease / by John Parkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    effort of courage, the Spaniards recovered their independence and their liberty (by the expulsion of the Moors), ought to have been a sign of the progress of knowledge: it was the precursor of a state of ignorance, which each age has appeared to render more profound. It would not be dif&cult to point out the cause of this apparent anomaly. This task, which is foreign to our subject, would, were we to fulfil it, teach nothing to those enlight- ened individuals who understand the direful influence, which the establishment of the Inquisition must have exercised on the peo23le of the Peninsula.* Since its suppression, and, with it, the absolute power of the Priests—the sworn enemies to all intellectual progress—Medicine and Surgery have made rapid advances; and there are, at this moment, Professors in Spain who may be favourably compared, for erudition and skill, with those of any other country. A regular divorce was thus again effected between Theology and Medicine, while the latter became, once more, elevated into a Science, to which the discovery of the art of printing lent no small aid. The works of Hippocrates, of Galen, and of other writers, were printed, and soon became the Text books in Medicine: while the doctrines and the practice of the Pathers of the medical Art reigned supreme. This continued until the com- mencement of the 16th century, when the humoral * Diet, des Sciences Medicales. Art. Medicine.