Medical knowledge of medieval physician on the cause of plague during 1347/8-1351: traditional understandings to poison theory.

IF 0.1 4区 哲学 0 ASIAN STUDIES
Sang Dong Lee
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Abstract

This article sets its investigative goal on determining the medical knowledge of medieval physicians from 1347-8 to 1351 concerning the causes of plague. As the plague killed a third of Europe's population, the contemporary witness at the time perceived God as the sender of this plague to punish the human society. However, physicians separated the religious and cultural explanation for the cause of this plague and instead seek the answer to this question elsewhere. Developing on traditional medical knowledges, physicians classified the possible range of the plague's causes into two areas: universal cause and individual/particular causes. In addition, they also sought to explain the causes by employing the traditional miasma-humoral theory. Unlike the previous ones, however, the plague during 1347-8 to 1351 killed the patients indiscriminately and also incredibly viciously. This phenomenon could not be explained by merely using the traditional medical knowledge and this idiosyncrasy led the physicians employ the poison theory to explain the causes of plague more pragmatically.

中世纪医生对1347/8-1351年间瘟疫病因的医学知识:对毒药理论的传统理解。
本文的研究目标是确定1347-8年至1351年中世纪医生关于瘟疫病因的医学知识。由于瘟疫导致欧洲三分之一的人口死亡,当时的当代目击者认为上帝是这场瘟疫的发送者,目的是惩罚人类社会。然而,医生们将宗教和文化对这场瘟疫原因的解释分开,转而在其他地方寻求这个问题的答案。在传统医学知识的基础上,医生将瘟疫的可能原因分为两个领域:普遍原因和个人/特定原因。此外,他们还试图用传统的体液理论来解释病因。然而,与前几次不同的是,1347-8年至1351年期间的瘟疫不分青红皂白地杀死了病人,而且非常恶毒。这一现象不能仅仅用传统医学知识来解释,这种特殊性导致医生们用毒药理论来更务实地解释瘟疫的原因。
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