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STYLE="padding: 3px" WIDTH="465" BGCOLOR="C0C27C"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">associ au dossier</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"> </FONT><B><U><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana"><a href="/mot.nsf/Dossiers/Caton_l_Ancien" class="dossiers">Caton l'Ancien</a></FONT></U></B></TD></TR>  <TR VALIGN=top><TD WIDTH="465" BGCOLOR="004023"><IMG SRC="/reftext.nsf/spacer.gif?OpenImageResource" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1></TD></TR>  <TR VALIGN=top><TD WIDTH="465"><IMG SRC="/reftext.nsf/spacer.gif?OpenImageResource" WIDTH=460 HEIGHT=1></TD></TR>  <TR VALIGN=top><TD STYLE="padding-top: 15 px" WIDTH="465"><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Times New Roman">Le mdecin grec vu par Caton</FONT></TD></TR>  <TR VALIGN=top><TD WIDTH="465"><IMG SRC="/reftext.nsf/ligne_verte.gif?OpenImageResource" WIDTH=465 HEIGHT=1></TD></TR>  <TR VALIGN=top><TD STYLE="padding-top: 12px" WIDTH="465"><B><FONT SIZE=4 COLOR="37605e" FACE="Times New Roman">Jacques Dufresne</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"></FONT></TD></TR>  <TR VALIGN=top><TD WIDTH="465"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><a href="http://agora.qc.ca/cvdufresne.html">http://agora.qc.ca/cvdufresne.html</a></FONT></TD></TR>  <TR VALIGN=top><TD WIDTH="465"><B><FONT COLOR="37605E" FACE="Times New Roman">Courriel: </FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><a href=mailto:dufresne@agora.qc.ca class=Dossier>dufresne@agora.qc.ca</a></FONT></TD></TR>  <TR VALIGN=top><TD STYLE="padding-top: 12px" WIDTH="465"><B><FONT COLOR="37605E" FACE="Times New Roman">Prsentation</FONT></B><BR> La cit qui a conquis le monde dans l'Antiquit, Rome, avait refus longtemps de se faire conqurir par les mdecins. Les premiers mdecins grecs ayant immigr  Rome furent expulss sous prtexte qu'ils ramollisaient les moeurs de la grande cit guerrire.</TD></TR>  <TR VALIGN=top><TD STYLE="padding-top: 12px;" WIDTH="465"><B><FONT COLOR="37605E" FACE="Times New Roman">Extrait</FONT></B><BR> Dans son <I>Trait de l'agriculture,</I> Caton a lui-mme indiqu comment chacun devait se soigner. Il considrait la maladie comme une preuve destine  former le caractre et peut-tre aussi, sans le dire expressment, comme une forme de slection naturelle. Fiez-vous d'abord  votre instinct, disait-il  ses compatriotes. Il indiquait ensuite quelques techniques chirurgicales lmentaires, que tout soldat devait connatre, et quelques herbes. Le remde par excellence, le remde universel, c'tait le chou, qui tait aussi l'une des plantes les plus rpandues.</TD></TR>  <TR VALIGN=top><TD WIDTH="465"><IMG SRC="/icons/ecblank.gif" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=1 WIDTH=1 ALT=""></TD></TR>  <TR VALIGN=top><TD STYLE="padding-top: 21px; padding-bottom: 12px" WIDTH="465"><IMG SRC="/reftext.nsf/ligne_verte.gif?OpenImageResource" WIDTH=465 HEIGHT=1></TD></TR>  <TR VALIGN=top><TD WIDTH="465"><IMG SRC="/icons/ecblank.gif" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=1 WIDTH=1 ALT=""></TD></TR>  <TR VALIGN=top><TD WIDTH="465"><IMG SRC="/icons/ecblank.gif" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=1 WIDTH=1 ALT=""></TD></TR>  <TR VALIGN=top><TD WIDTH="465"><IMG SRC="/icons/ecblank.gif" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=1 WIDTH=1 ALT=""></TD></TR>  <TR VALIGN=top><TD STYLE="padding-top: 12px;" WIDTH="465"><B><FONT COLOR="37605E" FACE="Times New Roman">Texte</FONT></B><BR> La mdecine grecque finira par imprgner la civilisation romaine, mais non sans avoir rencontr une farouche rsistance, incarne par Caton. Grand dfenseur des moeurs austres de la Rome antique, Caton avait la plus vive mfiance  l'gard des mdecins grecs, qu'il associait aux parfums et aux soieries de la dcadence. Crois-moi sur parole, crivait-il  son <A HREF="http://www.ac-versailles.fr/pedagogi/anti/educatio/edrom0t2.htm"><FONT COLOR="0000ff">fils,</FONT></A> si ce peuple (les Grecs) parvient  nous contaminer avec sa culture, nous sommes perdus. Il a dj commenc avec ses mdecins qui, sous prtexte de nous soigner, sont venus ici dtruire les barbares. Je t'interdis d'avoir affaire  eux.<BR>  <BR> Dans son <A HREF="http://www.ac-poitiers.fr/pedago/coll_lyc/lettres/lang_anc/cato.htm"><I><FONT COLOR="0000ff">Trait de l'agriculture,</FONT></I></A>Caton a lui-mme indiqu comment chacun devait se soigner. Il considrait la maladie comme une preuve destine  former le caractre et peut-tre aussi, sans le dire expressment, comme une forme de slection naturelle. Fiez-vous d'abord  votre instinct, disait-il  ses compatriotes. Il indiquait ensuite quelques techniques chirurgicales lmentaires, que tout soldat devait connatre, et quelques herbes. Le remde par excellence, le remde universel, c'tait le chou, qui tait aussi l'une des plantes les plus rpandues.<BR> <BR> Mais les mdecins grecs finirent par avoir gain de cause et, grce  l'un d'entre eux, un hippocratique venu de Pergame, Galien, leur discipline s'assura une hgmonie de prs de quinze cents ans en Occident. Galien avait cependant eu d'illustres prdcesseurs au Ier sicle apr. J.-C., Celse auteur du De Medicina et Pline l'Ancien, auteur d'une Historia Naturalis contenant de nombreuses descriptions de traitement en vogue dans la Rome traditionnelle. 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