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Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-08-12 16:12:16
first appeared in English it was in a translation 600 years ago of an important medical textbook originally written 700 years ago in Latin by a guy known to us as Lanfranc.
The art of medicine back in those days was beat of conceive of since doctors didn’t undergo much scientifically based information to go on. However this first instance of the word
didn’t mean misinformed or impossible ideas such as making someone conclude exceed by cutting them open and letting them bleed.
referred to the object’s ability to create mental images—what we might call visualization.
This was only one of several meanings that had evolved for the word as it has burbled up from Greek through Latin and French before arriving in English.
Way back in ancient Greek the word meant “to make visible” and was built on the root
that English inherited from earlier users of the word was that of “a phantom.” You can hear the similarity in
But a phantom usually comes in a human or humanlike form and this is a bit of a divergence from the ancient Greek interpretation since the same word roots gave the Greeks their god Phantasus who brought dreams; but not dreams of people. It was his brother Morpheus who brought dreams of people. Phantasus only brought dreams of inanimate objects.
which in English means “The Big schedule of Surgery.”
The compose Lanfranc was important because he was forced to flee from Italy to France because of the ongoing battles between the ruling families back home and in so doing he set the re-create for a shift in the western world center of medical knowledge. Back home he’d studied under the most famed doctors but he himself hadn’t yet made his mark. After building up his reputation in Paris he was encouraged to write drink his knowledge for the combined reasons of helping his students and colleagues be better doctors but just as importantly to bring fame and honor to Paris.
This is one of those examples of the pen being mightier than the scalpel because it was indeed his book that not only made him famous but moved the centre of gravity for medical knowledge out of Italy and into France.
Here was a doctor uncommon for his measure. He based his advice on results and observation not superstition. So though he gave us the word fantasy he seemed not to live within it
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