Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

210 Numbers medical science looked bleak indeed.^43 Writing home from Paris in 1869, where he was attending Claude Bernard’s lec ...

Science and Medicine 211 were spreading across the land, similarly transforming other medical schools. By the turn of the centur ...

212 Numbers SECTS AND SCIENCE The growing enthusiasm for “scientifi c medicine” did not stem exclusively from a desire to improv ...

Science and Medicine 213 Unfortunately for the regulars, the sectarians had no intention of abdi- cating their own claim to scie ...

214 Numbers science—the faculty at the Palmer School of Chiropractic, for example, dismissed chemical and microscopic studies as ...

Science and Medicine 215 more than the uncritical (and perhaps unconscious) use of the term “sci- entifi c medicine” to describe ...

216 Numbers nervous and arterial sedatives for allaying nervous restlessness and con- trolling the circulation, the mechanical a ...

Science and Medicine 217 cine. “All else which may go under the name of medicine,” declared a president of the AMA, “is sham and ...

218 Numbers of the prescientifi c days of the nineteenth century.^81 Still other physicians lamented the lost art of medicine, s ...

Science and Medicine 219 Roger French, Ancient Natural History (London: Routledge, 1994), 223–24. Charles H. Talbot, “Medicine, ...

220 Numbers Thomas H. Broman, The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750–1820 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ...

Science and Medicine 221 Ibid., 26; see also Geison, “Divided We Stand,” 67–90. Tuchman, Science, Medicine, and the State in Ge ...

222 Numbers Co., 1971), quoted in W. Bruce Fye, The Development of American Physiology: Scientifi c Medicine in the Nineteenth C ...

Science and Medicine 223 James M’Alister, 1847). On the Eclectic sect, see John S. Haller Jr., Medical Protestants: The Eclectic ...

224 Numbers Porter, “Medical Science and Human Science in the Enlightenment,” 57–60. In a particularly intriguing exercise, Les ...

225 At the opening of Josiah Mason’s Science College in Birmingham, Eng- land, in 1880, Thomas Huxley explained why he strongly ...

226 Kline phasizes their multiple, contested meanings. In regard to the term “cul- ture,” he says, “these variations, of whateve ...

Science and Technology 227 physician Jacob Bigelow’s Elements of Technology (1829), which derived from a course of lectures Bige ...

228 Kline Although William Rogers used the term “applied science” in 1846 when he drew up the plans for the institution that bec ...

Science and Technology 229 the power to evolve the perfect machine, and when we say that theory does not agree with practice, it ...