par Moreau, Elisabeth
Référence Renaissance Society of America - RSA Annual Meeting (4-6/04/2013: San Diego, CA, USA)
Publication Non publié, 2013
Communication à un colloque
Résumé : French physician Jean Riolan the Elder (1539-1605), dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, is known to have participated in the Parisian controversy between Galenists and Paracelsians at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He provided a critical commentary of Jean Fernel’s work, starting with a scholion to the Physiologia in the Commentarii in Sex Posteriores Physiologiae Fernelii Libros (Paris, 1577), which was reedited in his posthumous Opera Omnia (Paris, 1610). The aim of this paper is to explore Riolan's assessment of the digestion of food, particularly with respect to the Galenico-Avicennian concept of radical or primitive moisture and the role of the secondary humors (ros, gluten, cambium) in nutrition. It will examine the different degrees of concoction assigned to the secondary nutritive humors, presiding over the transformation from food via chylum, from chylum to blood, and from blood to the substance of the part of the human body.