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Darrera modificació: 2018-08-29
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Rocher, Gregory David de, Laurent Joubert, Popular errors, translated and annotated by —, Tuscaloosa - Londres, University of Alabama Press, 1989 - 1995, 2 vols.
- Resum
- Laurent Joubert (1529-1582) was an important figure in the medical world of the French Renaissance. He became a doctor at age 29 and shortly thereafter was appointed personal physician to Catherine de Medici and later became physician to three French monarchs. Joubert was an educator as well as a physician, and he wrote several works of medical literature, including his most controversial work, Erreurs populaires. While the work focuses on popular misconceptions concerning medicine and physicians in France in the 1500s, it also represents a wealth of information on the social, economic, political, and religious worldviews that framed and thus supported the development and conduct of medical science. The Second Part of the Popular Errors was to have been devoted exclusively to the discussion of a popular health regimen in the areas of personal conduct, the maintenance of one's surroundings, dress habits, and diet. Fortunately for us, Joubert included in The Second Part many topics intended for the balance of the original plan of thirty books. Thus, though with perhaps only a suggestion of what the treatment would have been had Joubert been able to bring his project to completion, we now have in The Second Part his main ideas concerning complexion, air and clothes, appetite and thirst, along with meals and digestion, the preparation and order of food, the importance of beverages, and, surprisingly, the problematic nature of wine in the diet. Food is again addressed in a section on the proper use of food during illness, followed by the importance of sleep. The only topic not covered is the one that came to interrupt Joubert's progress in 1582: death.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Dietètica i higiene
Recepció
- URL
- https://books.google.es/books?id=DCF6CgAAQBAJ&lpg=P ...
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https://books.google.es/books?id=iJwrg8exGFMC&lpg=P ... (2)
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