This situation became increasingly unacceptable to the church leading to the Gregorian Reforms of the 11 th century. The decree of the Fourth Lateran Council by Innocent the Third forbade higher clergy from engaging in any activities likely to cause bloodshed [4].
The beginning of the new millennium was a time of great social change. The end of the early Middle Ages in European culture was marked by a reawakening of city life and the appearance of the burgher class of merchants.
The rise of city states was characterised by burgeoning bureaucracies with increased literacy and numeracy. This enlightenment was associated with the development of the scientific method and advances in mathematics, astronomy and industrialization.
Inventions such as windmills, the spinning wheel, paper, the magnetic compass and Arabic numerology were catalysts for economic growth. There was a revival of Greek culture with a focus on understanding the natural world and on the logical thinking championed by Aristotle.
Original ancient texts were studied and appraised through reasoning and empiric evidence [5]. This was all aided by the migration of Greek scholars, particularly after the fall of Constantinople in Together with the rise of medieval communes were the beginnings of vernacular literature and the founding of the first universities. Salerno had existed since Roman times becoming famous as a health centre in the new millennium, with increasing numbers studying medicine there under renowned scholars.
It developed an orientation around Greek medicine when the Archbishop of Salerno, Alphanus d , following travel to Constantinople in , introduced Byzantine and Islamic medicine which had preserved the Galenic humoral tradition [6]. This allowed the medical practitioner a more intellectual and physiological approach compared to the common healer [2]. His translation of Arabic medicine into Latin was crucial in allowing Latin speakers to share medical thinking and debate Greek medicine and philosophy.
The Articella consisted of four parts Galen, Hippocratic aphorisms, Theophilus on urine, Philaretus on the pulse conveying theoretical knowledge and linking medicine with philosophy [2]. The Articella became the foundation text of medical authority in the newly established medical schools of Europe by the middle of the 12 th century and married the scholastic Aristotelian approach of function and purpose to medicine with contemporary Galenic views [7].
Salerno was the first to set a precedent in university scholasticism and professionalism that saw medicine, as a system of knowledge demonstrating truth, being taught in a university [5]. It produced a formal investment in learning and established medicine as a means for debating philosophical issues of the time.
The medical school at Salerno also fostered a translation movement lasting hundreds of years with over 50 Galenic texts discovered and translated largely by Nicola da Reggio d in Naples. Other universities with medical faculties soon followed, initially in Italy Bologna , Padua , then in France Paris and England Oxford From the early 12 th century opening the body was a common funerary practice as was embalming [8]. The first recorded case in Italy of a body being opened for inspection was in [9].
Courts in France and Italy ordered post mortems in cases of violent or suspicious deaths, often to explain the spiritual as well as the physical state of an individual. Most of these early autopsies probably took place in private houses [9].
Autopsy became an integral part of legal practice and the techniques of embalming and autopsy were quite similar. Systematic dissection of the human body began in Bologna with Mondino de Luzzi He documented the first public record of a dissection in on a condemned criminal at the Bologna Medical School [3].
This was a brief, practical introductory anatomy manual for the developing university based education but, as it relied on Galenic and Arabic medicine, it perpetuated the old errors derived from animal dissection [5].
Dissection based on the model of Mondino became very popular in Europe spreading to Padua in and Venice, Florence and Vienna later in the century. His book was therefore based on the three compartments of the body and their organs. These compartments were dissected in order, not only because of the practical issue of putrefaction, but also because of the traditional philosophical sequence.
Mondino suggested that the muscles of the limbs be studied in a sun dried body rather than a rapidly decaying cadaver. However the anatomy of the limbs received scant attention in his book. It was not until that Louis of Anjou ordered the body of an executed criminal to be delivered each year to the faculty of medicine at the University of Montpellier [9].
The first official dissection recorded in Paris was in [3]. The practice of dissection became codified in the form of regular, university sponsored anatomy and over the 14 th century dissection spread rapidly in northern Italian cities [9]. Initially, however, human anatomy had very little role in medical education.
In fact in the medical school in Salerno anatomy was taught by dissection of pigs and never progressed to human dissection. By it was a requirement to attend, and later partake, in an animal dissection [5].
Initially only one or two criminal cadavers were delivered each year but this number gradually increased as links developed between anatomists and administrators of criminal justice. In some places, England in particular, the practice of dissection was punitive and functioned to prolong the sufferings of condemned criminals beyond execution and into death [10].
The ecclesiastical authorities initially attempted to check the growing practice of autopsy and dissection. By the middle of the 14 th century Guy de Chauliac was writing about different ways of preparing subjects for anatomists. Dissection soon became part of medical education and was conducted in universities across Europe with the full consent and active encouragement of the local ruler or civic authority [10].
In the Venetian senate gave permission for annual dissection and by medical students at Tubingen attended them with the blessing of the Pope [4].
In the 13 th and early 14 th centuries medicine was partly of Hippocratic, Byzantine and Arabic origin. The 14 th century saw a confrontation, and sometimes interpenetration, of two main kinds of medical knowledge: that of the empiric, relying on personal experience, and that of the professional doctor who tended to rationalism based on tradition.
Physiology was part of theology and the medieval body more part of theological discourse as an echo of the macrocosm. The College of Physicians formed in London in as did a similar organisation in Paris. The declaration of Innocent the Third in meant that surgery must be left to the layman practitioner [1] opening up a gulf between physicians and surgeons. The latter were mostly uneducated manual workers degraded by their contact with blood. This reflected the religious values of the times and the shedding of blood was incompatible with ecclesiastical status because of the risk of causing death involuntarily.
An ambivalent attitude consequently developed towards surgeons in the medieval world. In the early 14 th century the faculty of medicine in Paris was basically an ecclesiastical institution under the control of the Pope. In it imposed on its graduates an oath not to engage in surgical practice. However prior to this in Paris, Henri de Mondeville urged surgeons to become as learned as physicians.
He had studied at Montpellier, with further training in Bologna and Paris, and was the first surgeon to write a treatise on surgery. He sought to liberate the body from its metaphysical associations and place its study in the realm of science [3]. He was anxious to free his art and science from all religious control. His stress on the solely secular value of the body was linked to the rehabilitation of the flesh emerging in medieval society. The taboos on anatomical knowledge had a religious influence and were rooted in the mentality of the time.
The body was looked upon as a microcosm which housed a soul and to shed blood was to make dangerous contact with the life force itself [3]. Medieval surgeons probably had significant opportunities to examine human cadavers since they performed the autopsies and embalming procedures common among the upper classes [10]. Guy de Chauliac , a lesser order clergy who succeeded de Mondeville in Paris, developed surgical expertise through five to six years of tutelage in an apprenticeship system which required a working knowledge of anatomy.
Surgeons were not able to proceed beyond the membranous linings of the body cavities which became the theoretical domain of physicians. This only accentuated the increasing divide between university doctors and practical surgeons that characterised this period.
Subsequently the creation of the Company of Physicians in Paris and the College of Physicians of London consolidated the separation of medicine and surgery [11]. Continued surgical tutelage by apprenticeship led to the organisation of guilds and a Master Surgeons Guild formed in London in The Barbers of London received a charter in from Edward the Fourth and by the Guild of Surgeons had merged with the Barbers Guild by an act of parliament [2].
Finally this newly formed Company of Barber-Surgeons of London obtained a formal allocation of four criminal cadavers each year for the purpose of dissection [10]. The rationality of medicine began to be seen to lie in its anatomical basis and dissection of the human body was now looked upon as a dignified and worthwhile scientific undertaking.
Beginning around there was increasing interest in anatomy although the idea that dissection might be used to verify or even correct established medicine was quite alien [9]. The superiority of learned physicians in universities was demonstrated by public displays of human dissection in much the same manner as Galen achieved with pig dissections in Rome where he prided himself on his dissecting ability [7]. Academic physicians revelled in these public displays and anatomy theatres were built partly for the purpose of raising their public image.
The social role for dissection was justified in terms of natural philosophy and piety. Surgical benefits were rarely mentioned [5]. A typical dissection scene, as depicted in medieval illustrations, would consist of the physician in academic robes sitting high on a throne reading from a text, usually Galenic [1]. A surgeon is seen opening the cadaver and dissecting while a teaching assistant points out features to the audience [10].
The statutes at the University of Bologna in stated that no more than 20 students could attend a male cadaver and no more than 30 for a female body [9]. The first dissections were not open to the public but reserved for professional medical practitioners, students, barber-surgeons and some artists [2].
Prominent citizens and interested layman soon also began attending university anatomy dissections. As the size of the audience increased permanent anatomy theatres were built beginning in the middle of the 16 th.
Dissections became somewhat theatrical events attracting enthusiastic crowds in an almost carnival atmosphere, becoming ceremonies of sorts. Dissections would last three or four days and were celebrated by banquets. They were divided into several sessions depending on decay and the teaching practices of the ancients, particularly Galen.
Theologians were always present and the dissected body was usually buried in consecrated ground under the direction of a priest [3]. After Bologna the greatest centre of human dissection was Padua.
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