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Nineteenth-Century Medicine: The Paris School of Medicine

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This lecture examines the Paris School of Medicine and its role in transforming nineteenth-century medical practice. It focuses on the limits of humoralism and Galenism, hospital medicine, revolutionary institutional changes, and the rise of observation-based diagnosis.

Syllabus

- Chapter 1. The Paris School of Medicine
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- Chapter 2. Limitations of Humoralism and Galenism
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- Chapter 3. Hospital Medicine
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- Chapter 4. Institutional Foundations
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- Chapter 5. Philosophical Foundations
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- Chapter 6. Influences of the French Revolution
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- Chapter 7. "Peu lire et beaucoup voir": Observation-Based Medicine
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- Chapter 8. Effects of the Paris School
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