Article ID: CBB001451600

Tartu as the Eastern Outpost of European Medicine in the First Half of the 17th Century (2014)

unapi

ABSTRACT The history of medicine in Tartu begins with medieval monastic medicine. There is data about an infirmary and an almshouse at the Holy Spirit church, which were probably founded in the middle of the 13th century. The first pharmacy in Tartu was founded between 1422 and 1430 by a learned physician who arrived from Tallinn. Up to the beginning of the 17th century, the owners of the pharmacy were the only representatives of academic medicine in Tartu. Academic medical education in Tartu had its beginnings with the academic gymnasium founded in 1630 and the university founded in 1632. One of the three higher faculties at the University of Tartu at that time was the Faculty of medicine. It was planned to have two professorships, although in reality only one professor of medicine was employed. The model of the University of Paris demanded that all "proper" universities must have a medical faculty. there were very few students studying at the Faculty of medicine in Tartu in the 17th century. Only two names--David Cunitius and Olaus Oestenius--could be mentioned from among those who studied medicine at Academia Gustaviana and were later active as physicians. There were also students who studied in some other faculty in Tartu and later continued their studies in the field of medicine elsewhere in Europe. However, the Swedish University of Tartu can be considered an important centre of early modern medical thought in the Eastern Europe. The article tries to give some idea about the medical situation in Tartu before the founding of the university of Tartu and during its early period of existence. The task is to investigate whether the academic medicine of the first half of the 17th century has introduced any changes into the history of medicine of Tartu.

...More
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001451600/

Similar Citations

Chapter Hirai, Hiro; (2011)
Slovo Boží a univerzální lék v chemické filosofii Oswalda Crolla (/isis/citation/CBB001201943/)

Book Rogers, Naomi; (2014)
Polio Wars: Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine (/isis/citation/CBB001452081/)

Article Ranft, Patricia; (2014)
Ruminations on Hildegard of Bingen (1098--1179) and Autism (/isis/citation/CBB001421992/)

Article Ernesto Riva; (2019)
Il difficile cammino della materia medica presso i monaci dell’alto medioevo (/isis/citation/CBB812510771/)

Article Sander, Heldur; Meikar, Toivo; Magowska, Anita; (2014)
The Learned Gardeners of the Botanical Gardens of the University of Tartu and Their Activities (1803--1918) (/isis/citation/CBB001451601/)

Chapter Mills, Kenneth; (2013)
Demonios within and without: Hieronymites and the Devil in the Early Modern Hispanic World (/isis/citation/CBB001202071/)

Book Pietro Daniel Omodeo; Volkhard Wels; (2019)
Natural Knowledge and Aristotelianism at Early Modern Protestant Universities (/isis/citation/CBB325233371/)

Book Mirowski, Philip; (2011)
Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science (/isis/citation/CBB001210019/)

Chapter Hlavá<c->ek, Jakub; (2011)
Imaginace a hvĕzdné tĕlo v alchymické kosmologii Oswalda Crolla (/isis/citation/CBB001201944/)

Chapter Drábek, Pavel; (2011)
Farmacie v rudolfínské dobĕ (/isis/citation/CBB001201956/)

Chapter Principe, Lawrence M.; (2009)
That Catholics Did Not Contribute to the Scientific Revolution (/isis/citation/CBB001032206/)

Article Genna, Caterina; (2018)
Il concetto di infinito nel contest del ‘Rinascimento scientifico’ (/isis/citation/CBB750962888/)

Article Crignon, Claire; (2011)
La découverte de la circulation sanguine: révolution ou refonte? (/isis/citation/CBB001220553/)

Book Adrian Wilson; (2014)
Ideas and Practices in the History of Medicine, 1650–1820 (/isis/citation/CBB417437702/)

Authors & Contributors
Genna, Caterina
Sha Ha
Triplett, Katja
Ranft, Patricia
Wilson, Adrian
Wels, Volkhard
Concepts
Development of science; change in science
Medicine
Medicine and religion
Universities and colleges
Monastic orders
Science and culture
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Early modern
Medieval
19th century
12th century
Places
Eastern Europe
United States
Europe
Spain
Portugal
Japan
Institutions
Schola Medica Salernitana
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment