The Evolution of Modern Medicine
by Sir William Osler
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About this eBook
- Author
- Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919
- Title
- The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913
- Credits
- Produced by Charles Keller and David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- R: Medicine
- Subject
- Medicine -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 1566
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1566
- Release Date
- February 22, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN MEDICINE
- 2.by William Osler
- 3.THE SILLIMAN FOUNDATION
- 4.PREFACE
- 5.CHAPTER I — ORIGIN OF MEDICINE
- 6.INTRODUCTION
- 7.ORIGIN OF MEDICINE
- 8.EGYPTIAN MEDICINE
- 9.ASSYRIAN AND BABYLONIAN MEDICINE
- 10.HEBREW MEDICINE
- 11.CHINESE AND JAPANESE MEDICINE
- 12.CHAPTER II — GREEK MEDICINE
- 13.ASKLEPIOS
- 14.HIPPOCRATES AND THE HIPPOCRATIC WRITINGS
- 15.ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOL
- 16.GALEN
- 17.CHAPTER III — MEDIAEVAL MEDICINE
- 18.SOUTH ITALIAN SCHOOL
- 19.BYZANTINE MEDICINE
- 20.ARABIAN MEDICINE
- 21.THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES
- 22.MEDIAEVAL MEDICAL STUDIES
- 23.MEDIAEVAL PRACTICE
- 24.ASTROLOGY AND DIVINATION
- 25.CHAPTER IV — THE RENAISSANCE AND THE RISE OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
- 26.PARACELSUS
- 27.VESALIUS
- 28.HARVEY
- 29.CHAPTER V — THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN MEDICINE
- 30.INTERNAL SECRETIONS
- 31.CHEMISTRY
- 32.CHAPTER VI — THE RISE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
- 33.SANITATION
- 34.TUBERCULOSIS
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