Description

IN this episode Dr's J and Santhosh explore some of the surprising influence and contributions France has made to the medical field. Along the way they cover the French revolution, the beginning of hospital medicine as a specialty, eliminating class barriers in medical practice, the shift away from humoral theory, the creation of health restaurants, the macabre catalyst that drove the new fields of study, empirical medicine and the stethoscope, origins of pathology and research departments, differential diagnosis

Further Reading

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/revolutionary-hospital-medicine

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12964569/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3655283

https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1168&context=younghistorians

https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9252/4/3/18

https://hekint.org/2017/01/24/architecture-and-the-french-hospital/#:~:text=Parisian%20hospitals%2C%20like%20those%20in,mattresses%20placed%20in%20the%20corridors.

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