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Functional Interrogation of Adult Hypothalamic Neurogenesis with Focal Radiological Inhibition
Published on: November 14, 2013
[Neo-'hippocratism' in Bernardino Ramazzini]
Silvia Marinozzi1, Maria Conforti, Valentina Gazzaniga
1Sezione di Storia della Medicina, Dip. Medicina Molecolare, "Sapienza" Università di Roma, I.
Abstract:
Neo-hippocratism is a rational and mechanic method to explain pathological phenomena and discover the causes of diseases. Bernardino Ramazzini uses Hippocratic empirical observation to investigate the relations between the alterations of the air - due to mephitic vapours, of organic and inorganic origin - and the development of pathological processes. His notion of corruption of the atmosphere as the origin of epidemics and specific diseases, and that of prevention as the main strategy of modern medicine, is developed in medical literature and in the public medicine projects of the end of the Seventeenth century.
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