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The development of scientific medicine in the African Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Davies, J. N. P. |
| Copyright Year | 1959 |
| Abstract | Introduction The development of that broad stream of ideas stemming from the classical world which has culminated in modem Western medicine is inevitably the main field of medical history. There is indeed comparatively little outside this field in which it could operate. For the medical knowledge of classical times was in part based on ideas derived from Egypt, India and China. It was transmitted through Arabian medicine to Southern Europe and thence via the Italian Universities to Northern Europe, where the genius ofWilliamHarvey developed the experimental method upon which modern scientific medicine is based. By the time of Harvey, and certainly before the paths opened by Harvey were assiduously explored, Western Europe was in contact once more with India and the Far East, and the indigenous systems of the Maya, the Aztecs and the Incas had been brought into contact with the Western World. However little interaction of medical ideas there may have been, the possibility was there. Knowledge of the development of medical thought and practice amongst peoples completely divorced from contact with developing 'Western' medicine is therefore largely derived from antiquity or is based upon studies of primitive peoples, most ofwhose medical concepts are rudimentary and of interest to the anthropologist rather than to the medical historian. Some considerable interest, therefore, is attached to the medical concepts and practices developed amongst the lacustrine peoples of East Africa, in particular the Kingdom of BunyoroKitara, for there is evidence to suggest a remarkable level ofmedical knowledge in this kingdom which had seemingly developed in complete isolation from the outside world. |
| Starting Page | 47 |
| Ending Page | 57 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0025727300024248 |
| PubMed reference number | 13632207 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 3 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/AB8D758D3B7DDB35D318E4F4E7855214/S0025727300024248a.pdf/development_of_scientific_medicine_in_the_african_kingdom_of_bunyorokitara.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.bunyoro-kitara.org/resources/Book$2C+The+development+of+Scientific+Medicine+in+Bunyoro-Kitara.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025727300024248 |
| Journal | Medical history |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
