'Morbus' and 'Anatomia'. Two Early Medical Essays by John Locke
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https://doi.org/10.12775/szhf.2016.009Keywords
John Locke, British empiricism, history of medicine, Robert Boyle, Thomas SydenhamAbstract
John Locke’s medical interests resulted in several short texts in which he criticizes two theoretical conceptions of his days, paracelsianism and galenism. Two of the texts – ‘Morbus’ and ‘Anatomia’ – show the influence of Thomas Sydenham on Locke’s understanding of medicine which can be summarized as a turn towards clinical medicine and empirical investigations. The article reconstructs this early stage of the development of Locke’s standpoint leading to ‘An Essay Concerning Human Understanding’.
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