The Psychology of Conviction : a Study of Beliefs And Attitudes
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130- 200), who developed the views of Hippocrates and whose authority dominated the medical world for cen- turies. The doctrine became a classical heritage through its incorporation in the Galenic system of medicine. Its survival in the transfer of Greco-Roman science and tradition across the desert of unprogressive ages, with their uncertain and irregular caravans of learning, was due largely to its association with the "humoral" theory of disease. This remained a central as well as a 138 THE ...PSYCHOLOGY OF CONVICTION controversial issue in mediaeval and Renaissance medi- cine, and was effectively retired only by the complete transformation of physiological conceptions inaugin-ated by Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood (1628). Along with this decisive reform in knowledge and method there was established the clinical tem- per of the practice of medicine, which was as largely set by Sydenham (1624-89), as were the experimental standards by Harvey, as similarly the anatomical pre- requisite had been supplied by Vesalius (1514-64).
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