title: [Save for eternity: principles of medical science in the age of Montaigne and Cervantes].
abstract: This article approaches the medical arts at a time in which therapies are based on empirical knowledge, dictated by the fallacy of the authority ofunshakeable traditions. "Madness" and "eccentricities" perpetuated by Old School medical craftsmen are prevalent today in the strange practices of the new charlatanism, such as trunk cell technologies.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ciências Sociais, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brasil. malopes@uel.br
authors.forename: Marcos Antônio
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lopes
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene / Q000266:history; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D008519:Medicine, Traditional / Q000266:history*; D011781:Quackery / Q000266:history*; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D013483:Superstitions / Q000266:history*