A short history of medicine

About this eBook

Author

Singer, Charles, 1876-1960

Title

A short history of medicine : introducing medical principles to students and non-medical readers

Original Publication

New York: Oxford University Press, 1928.

Credits

deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

R: Medicine

Subject

Medicine -- History

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 78966

Release Date

June 27, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A SHORT HISTORY OF MEDICINE
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.I ANCIENT GREECE (TO ABOUT 300 B.C.) — § 1. Origins of Greek Medicine. — § 2. The Hippocratic Physician. — § 3. Hippocratic Practice. — § 4. Aristotle.
6. 6.II THE HEIRS OF GREECE (300 B.C. TO A.D. 200.) — § 1. The Alexandrian School. — § 2. Medical Teaching in the Roman Empire. — § 3. Medical Services of the Roman Empire. — § 4. Roman Hospitals. — § 5. Galen. — § 6. The Final Medical Synthesis of Antiquity.
7. 7.III THE MIDDLE AGES (FROM ABOUT A.D. 200 TO ABOUT A.D. 1500.) — § 1. The Period of Depression in Europe. — § 2. Arabic Medicine. — § 3. The Medieval Awakening. — § 4. The Universities. — § 5. Medieval Anatomy, Surgery and Internal Medicine. — § 6. Medieval Hospitals and Hygiene.
8. 8.IV THE REBIRTH OF SCIENCE (FROM ABOUT 1500 TO ABOUT 1700) — § 1. The Anatomical Awakening. — § 2. The Anatomical Reaction on Surgery. — § 3. The Renaissance of Internal Medicine. — § 4. The First Physical Synthesis. — § 5. The Revival of Physiology. — § 6. Microscopic Analysis of the Animal Body. — § 7. From Alchemy to Chemistry. — § 8. The Medical Theorists. — ( a ) Iatrophysics. — ( b ) Iatrochemistry. — ( c ) Vitalism.
9. 9.V THE PERIOD OF CONSOLIDATION (FROM ABOUT 1700 TO ABOUT 1825) — § 1. The Reign of Law. — § 2. The Rise of Clinical Teaching. — § 3. Physiology passes to the Modern Stage. — § 4. Some Physiological Advances. — § 5. Discovery of the Nature of the Air. — § 6. Morbid Anatomy becomes a Science. — § 7. Clinical Methods and Instruments. — § 8. Surgery and Obstetrics. — § 9. The Beginnings of the Science of Vital Statistics. — § 10. Military, Naval, and Prison Medicine. — § 11. The Industrial Revolution. — § 12. Control and Recognition of Epidemic Diseases.
10. 10.VI PERIOD OF SCIENTIFIC SUBDIVISION (FROM ABOUT 1825 ONWARDS) — § 1. Origins and Implications of Scientific Specialization. — § 2. The Revolution in Preventive Medicine. — (a) Preventive Medicine in Britain. — (b) Preventive Medicine in the United States. — § 3. The Transition to a Physiological Synthesis. — (a) Anatomy and Embryology in the Earlier Nineteenth Century. — (b) Chemical Physiology in the Earlier Nineteenth Century. — (c) Nervous Physiology in the Earlier Nineteenth Century. — § 4. The Experimental Foundations of Modern Medicine. — (a) The Work of Johannes Müller. — (b) The Work of Claude Bernard. — (c) The Work of Karl Ludwig. — § 5. The Cell Theory and Cellular Pathology. — § 6. Establishment of the Doctrine of the Germ Origin of Disease. — § 7. Anaesthesia. — § 8. The Revolution in Surgery. — § 9. Some Modern Surgical Advances. — § 10. Bacteriology becomes a special Science. — § 11. Some Important Bacteriological Results. — § 12. The Study of Immunity. — § 13. Some Practical Applications of Immunity. — § 14. The Conquest of the Tropics. — (a) Yellow Fever. — (b) Malaria. — § 15. The Changed View of Insanity. — § 16. The New Movement in Psychology. — § 17. The Revolution in Nursing. — § 18. Some Modern Physiological Concepts of Clinical Import. — (a) Ductless Glands and Internal Secretions. — (b) Nervous Integration. — (c) Vitamins. — § 19. Knowledge of the Eye and its Disorders. — § 20. Investigation of the Nature and Action of Drugs. — (a) Entry of Vegetable Drugs into the Pharmacopoeia. — (b) Active Principles. — (c) The Alkaloids. — (d) The Glucosides. — (e) The Study of Pharmacology. — (f) Chemotherapy. — § 21. Interpretation of Collective Medical Data.
11. 11.EPILOGUE
12. 12.INDEX

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