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there we have real lancets--
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became the symbol of the orthodox physician,
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down through the nineteenth century.
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Now, note that there is no real humoral physiology,
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no idea of the circulation of the blood.
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The heart is not a pump but a furnace,
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drawing air from the lungs,
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heating it and distributing it as innate heat in the body.
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So, this was the first embodiment of scientific medicine.
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I want to talk about an alteration that it went through,
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through the second father of medicine.
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And this is another Greek physician,