Vallejos R

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

During the colonial era, the teaching of Medicine, particularly at the Real y Pontificia Universidad de Mexico, was strongly connected to the natural and biological principals held by Aristoteles Medicine was taught at the university during the sixteenth century, it was composed of four courses lasting a total of four years in which the book "DE GENERATIONE ET CORRUPTlONE" by Aristoteles was taught. After having successfully completed these studies, students were awarded a Bachelor's Degree in Medicine. The teaching of medicine was based on the work of Hipocrates and Galeno but the inclusion of the book by Aristoteles indicates that his biological principals were highly estimated and with that the acceptance of a vital spirit or pneuma which gave rise to all the phenomenum of life. Aristotelism, as a philosophical doctrine, was affirmed during the Middle Ages and then prevailed in the teaching of the new universities of the colonial period. Aristotelism reigned during many centuries and predominated in the education given in the colonial universities.