What is a major problem for modern medicine ?
It was only the extraordinary mind of genius that was able at this stage to meet the challenge of a true science of life and mind , what Colerdige termed the “ Dynamic System of Thought . ” As a result , the analytical approach favored by the French , schooled in the Cartesian system of mind - body duality , and with their significant advance in surgery ( albeit based on access to and development of original Greek medical writings and more modern Greek surgical practice ) , came to dominate Western science .