Exploring Therapeutic Resources in Colonial N. America

探索北美殖民地的治疗资源

• 批准号: 6560243
• 负责人: RENATE WILSON
• 金额: $ 8.01万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-30 至 2004-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6560243
• 关键词: European; Internet; North America; archives; biomedical resource; health care; information dissemination; journals; library; medicine; physicians; publications

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to provide wide and direct access to two rare dispensatories and formularies that illuminate the therapeutic practices and medical orientation of two physicians active in Pennsylvania during the period 1740-1770. A major component of the work is placement of these manuscripts in the Historical Medical Digital Library at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, which is accessible to researchers and the interested lay public on the permanent website of the College. The overall objectives are to (I) preserve as virtual images and as an English-language machine readable data file the Medicina Pensylvania of George de Benneville, a French Huguenot physician, and the Remediorem Specimina aliquot expraxi A. Wagner, a Schwenkfelder practitioner from Silesia, (2) to evaluate and analyse their therapeutic armamentarium and its place in the history of European and colonial American therapy and (3) publish the research findings in the conventional print media. Both manuscripts are written in the 18th century vernacular (English and German) with some Latin medical nomenclature. They document reliance on a wide range of cherniatric and botanical substances and provide insight into the understanding of the major diseases and conditions, including female complaints, encountered in their ongoing practice. Their authors were learned practitioners and part of an active transatlantic information network. Their strong but eclectic orientation to chemiatric remedies is characteristic of the movements of religious and medical dissidence and reform demonstrated in the secondary literature for the transition from the 17th to the 18th century. The publication and comparative evaluation of their therapeutic armamentarium and instructions for diagnosis and treatment will throw light on poorly understood aspects of American colonial medicine, in particular the influence of health related traditions brought over from the radical medical milieus of Central Europe. Additionally, the project will provide a rich historical data base for current researchers investigating the genesis of traditional materia medica.

描述（由申请人提供）： 该项目的目的是为两个在1740 - 1770年期间活跃于宾夕法尼亚州的两名医生的治疗方法和医学取向提供两个罕见的分配机构和配方。这项工作的一个主要组成部分是将这些手稿放置在费城医师学院历史医学数字图书馆中，研究人员和感兴趣的外行公众可以在该学院的永久网站上公开。 The overall objectives are to (I) preserve as virtual images and as an English-language machine readable data file the Medicina Pensylvania of George de Benneville, a French Huguenot physician, and the Remediorem Specimina aliquot expraxi A. Wagner, a Schwenkfelder practitioner from Silesia, (2) to evaluate and analyse their therapeutic armamentarium and its place in the history of European and美国殖民疗法和（3）在常规印刷媒体上发表研究结果。这两种手稿均以拉丁医学命名法以18世纪的白话（英语和德语）编写。他们记录了对各种切尔尼亚和植物性物质的依赖，并洞悉了对主要疾病和状况的理解，包括女性投诉，这些疾病在他们正在进行的实践中遇到。他们的作者是学到的从业者，也是活跃的跨大西洋信息网络的一部分。他们对化学疗法的强大但折衷的取向是宗教和医疗异议和改革运动的特征，从中学文献中展示了从17世纪到18世纪的过渡。对其治疗性武术的出版和比较评估以及诊断和治疗的说明将使人们对美国殖民医学的方面了解不足，尤其是与中欧激进医疗环境所产生的与健康相关传统的影响。此外，该项目将为研究传统Materia Medica的起源的现有研究人员提供丰富的历史数据库。