{"id":738,"date":"2024-11-11T19:34:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T19:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/?page_id=738"},"modified":"2024-11-11T19:34:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T19:34:29","slug":"jean-francois-fernel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/jean-francois-fernel\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Francois Fernel\n1497-1558"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acsu.buffalo.edu\/~duchan\/new_history\/early_modern\/images_early_modern\/fernel.jpg\" alt=\"Fernel portrait\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fernel drew from the ancient philosophers and physicians in an effort to translate and clarify the accumulated knowledge of the past. He, like his ancient predecessors, subscribed to humor theory, and used astronomy and astrology to theorize about the body and how to treat it medically. In his famous works&nbsp;<em>Dialogues<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Medicina,<\/em>&nbsp;he treated human physiology as an integrated topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The French physician Jean Fran\u00e7ois Fernel systematized medieval medicine. He was the first to use the term physiology, using the term to define the science that \u201ctells of the causes of the actions of the body\u201d (Fernel, 1542).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides his contributions to systemizing and reorganizing physiology and neurophysiology, Fernel was the first to describe appendicitis as an inflammation of the appendix, the first to talk about peristalsis, the wavelike motion of muscle in the throat involved in digestion, and the first to describe the spinal canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Writings about Jean Fernel<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Bennett, M.R. (2003) The early growth of neuroscientific knowledge: the integrative action of the nervous system. In M. R. Bennett and P. M. R. Hacker&nbsp;<em>Philosophical foundations of neuroscience&nbsp;<\/em>(pp. 23-25 on Fernel)<em>.&nbsp;<\/em>NY: Wiley (Blackwell).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forrester, J. &amp; Henry, J. (2005)&nbsp;<em>Jean Fernel\u2019s On the hidden causes of things: Forms, souls, and occult diseases in Renaissance medicine.&nbsp;<\/em>Brill Academic Publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2001-2023 by&nbsp;Judith Felson Duchan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernel drew from the ancient philosophers and physicians in an effort to translate and clarify the accumulated knowledge of the past. He, like his ancient predecessors, subscribed to humor theory, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":626,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-738","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}