Format:
393 pages
ISBN:
9781536138771
Series Statement:
Historical figures
Content:
"Hans Sachs (1494-1576), while also a cobbler, was the most prolific German author of the 16th century. He was the immediate literary successor in prestige to Hans Folz (died 1513) who thought of himself as a barber. Both lived in the important Bavarian city of Nuremberg. Folz, after about two centuries of performance, began to modernize the art of Master Song, as well as produce rhymed contemporary and satyrical commentary on various topics, including medicine. Sachs followed Folz in further advancing Master Song as well as composing humorous anecdotes, satirical comedies and tragedies, along with biographical and political essays on numerous topics (more than 6,000 in all). Folz was critical of the papacy, and Sachs demonstrated in many verses to be a devout Christian, as well as becoming a strident follower of Luther. However, this book largely focuses on writings that have relevance to medicine both metaphorically and realistically, and especially on how the doctor-patient relationship is depicted. While 16th century therapeutics obviously have little relevance to modern practice, the reader should see similarities with the contemporary idealized doctor-patient relationship. Furthermore, do conflicts that were considered funny five centuries ago elicit similar reactions now"--
Content:
Money and barter -- Nuremberg medical resources -- Writing styles of Folz and Sachs -- Biography of Folz -- Biography of Sachs and his two wives -- History of Meistergesang and Shrovetide plays -- Sachs: self identification -- Literary sources -- Book of trades -- Folz: bathing booklet -- Sachs: bathing verses -- Folz and Sachs: on furnishing a home -- Folz and Sachs: their different approach to spices -- Sachs: on theriac and musk -- On the improper use of words -- Folz and Sachs on quackery -- The qualities of water, and a dry bath -- Sachs's use of pregnancy -- The status of Jews and a dramatic depiction by Sachs -- Folz and Sachs on plague -- Dentistry -- Medical ethics -- Uroscopy -- Alcohol and alcoholism -- The origin of medicine according to greek mythology -- Gout and its adaptation to mythology -- A modern interpretation of medical terms -- Sachs and the gout fantasy of Niclas Praun -- The spider and the gout -- The disease of vices and gout -- Sachs's scholarship and death -- Unusual clinical observations and bibliophilia -- The kifferbeis plant and the hazards of leisure -- On anesthesia, adultery and jurisprudence -- Lawyers and physicians -- A surgical metaphor -- Autobiography and categories of writings -- Sachs: post mortem -- Chronology of Sachs's cited writings -- Follz's cited writings
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781536138788
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Benedek, Thomas G., author, translator Medicine and humor from the writings of Hans Sachs and Hans Folz, Meistersinger Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publisher's, Inc., [2017]
Language:
English
Keywords:
Sachs, Hans 1494-1576
;
Folz, Hans 1435-1513
;
Medizin
;
Humor
;
Anthologie
Author information:
Benedek, Thomas G.
Bookmarklink
