The Growth of Medicine from the Earliest Times to About 1800

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Author

Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry), 1842-1922

Title

The growth of medicine from the earliest times to about 1800

Original Publication

United States: Yale University Press,1917.

Credits

Turgut Dincer, Karin Spence 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. 67833

Release Date

April 14, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.THE GROWTH OF MEDICINE
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.THE WILLIAMS MEMORIAL PUBLICATION FUND
6. 6.PREFACE
7. 7.CONTENTS
8. 8.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
9. 9.PART I ANCIENT MEDICINE
10. 10.CHAPTER I DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENCE AND ART OF MEDICINE
11. 11.CHAPTER II ORIENTAL MEDICINE
12. 12.CHAPTER III ORIENTAL MEDICINE (Continued)
13. 13.CHAPTER IV GREEK MEDICINE AT THE DAWN OF HISTORY
14. 14.CHAPTER V THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SERPENT IN THE STATUES AND VOTIVE OFFERINGS EXPOSED TO VIEW IN THE AESCULAPIAN TEMPLES
15. 15.CHAPTER VI THE BEGINNINGS OF A RATIONAL SYSTEM OF MEDICINE IN GREECE — THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH
16. 16.CHAPTER VII HIPPOCRATES THE GREAT
17. 17.CHAPTER VIII BRIEF EXTRACTS FROM SOME OF THE HIPPOCRATIC WRITINGS — BRIEF EXTRACTS FROM SOME OF THE HIPPOCRATIC WRITINGS
18. 18.CHAPTER IX THE STATE OF GREEK MEDICINE AFTER THE EVENTS OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR; THE FOUNDING OF ALEXANDRIA IN EGYPT, AT THE MOUTH OF THE NILE; AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIFFERENT SECTS IN MEDICINE
19. 19.CHAPTER X ERASISTRATUS AND HEROPHILUS, THE TWO GREAT LEADERS IN MEDICINE AT ALEXANDRIA; THE FOUNDING OF NEW SECTS
20. 20.CHAPTER XI ASCLEPIADES, THE INTRODUCER OF GREEK MEDICINE INTO ROME
21. 21.CHAPTER XII THE STATE OF MEDICINE AT ROME AFTER THE DEATH OF ASCLEPIADES; THE FOUNDING OF THE SCHOOL OF THE METHODISTS
22. 22.CHAPTER XIII THE FURTHER HISTORY OF METHODISM AT ROME, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF TWO NEW SECTS, VIZ., THE PNEUMATISTS AND THE ECLECTICS.—A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE SUBJECT OF SECTS IN MEDICINE
23. 23.CHAPTER XIV WELL-KNOWN MEDICAL AUTHORS OF THE EARLY CENTURIES OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA
24. 24.CHAPTER XV CLAUDIUS GALEN — SELECTED LIST OF THE WORKS OF GALEN RELATING TO MEDICINE. (FROM LE CLERC.)
25. 25.CHAPTER XVI THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY UPON THE EVOLUTION OF MEDICINE
26. 26.PART II MEDIAEVAL MEDICINE
27. 27.CHAPTER XVII THE CONDITION OF MEDICINE AT BYZANTIUM DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE MIDDLE AGES
28. 28.CHAPTER XVIII BEGINNING OF THE ARAB RENAISSANCE UNDER THE CALIPHS OF BAGDAD
29. 29.CHAPTER XIX FURTHER ADVANCE OF THE ARAB RENAISSANCE DURING THE NINTH AND SUCCEEDING CENTURIES OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA
30. 30.CHAPTER XX HOSPITALS AND MONASTERIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES
31. 31.CHAPTER XXI MEDICAL INSTRUCTION AT SALERNO, ITALY, IN THE MIDDLE AGES — DE CONDITIONIBUS URINAE
32. 32.CHAPTER XXII EARLY EVIDENCES OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE RENAISSANCE UPON THE PROGRESS OF MEDICINE IN WESTERN EUROPE
33. 33.CHAPTER XXIII FURTHER PROGRESS OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY IN WESTERN EUROPE DURING THE THIRTEENTH, FOURTEENTH AND A PART OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURIES
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIV DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE MIDDLE AGES SURGERY ASSUMES THE MOST PROMINENT PLACE IN THE ADVANCE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE
35. 35.CHAPTER XXV BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ALLIED SCIENCES—PHARMACY, CHEMISTRY AND BALNEOTHERAPEUTICS
36. 36.PART III MEDICINE DURING THE RENAISSANCE
37. 37.CHAPTER XXVI IMPORTANT EVENTS THAT PRECEDED THE RENAISSANCE—EARLY ATTEMPTS TO DISSECT THE HUMAN BODY
38. 38.CHAPTER XXVII THE FOUNDERS OF HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
39. 39.CHAPTER XXVIII FURTHER DETAILS CONCERNING THE ADVANCE IN OUR KNOWLEDGE OF ANATOMY—DISSECTING MADE A PART OF THE REGULAR TRAINING OF A MEDICAL STUDENT—IATROCHEMISTS AND IATROPHYSICISTS—THE EMPLOYMENT OF LATIN IN LECTURING AND WRITING ON MEDICAL TOPICS
40. 40.CHAPTER XXIX THE CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY DIFFERENT MEN DURING THE RENAISSANCE, AND MORE PARTICULARLY BY WILLIAM HARVEY OF ENGLAND, TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD, LYMPH AND CHYLE
41. 41.CHAPTER XXX ADVANCES MADE IN INTERNAL MEDICINE AND IN THE COLLATERAL BRANCHES OF BOTANY, PHARMACOLOGY, CHEMISTRY AND PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXI CHEMISTRY AND EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXII SOME OF THE LEADERS IN MEDICINE IN ITALY, FRANCE AND ENGLAND DURING THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXIII THE THREE LEADING PHYSICIANS OF GERMANY DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: FRANZ DE LE BOË SYLVIUS, FRIEDRICH HOFFMANN AND GEORG ERNST STAHL
45. 45.CHAPTER XXXIV HERMANN BOERHAAVE OF LEYDEN, HOLLAND, ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED PHYSICIANS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY — DISTEMPERS OF THE SOLID SIMPLE FIBRE — DISTEMPERS OF A LAX AND WEAK FIBRE — DISTEMPERS OF THE STIFF AND ELASTIC FIBRE
46. 46.CHAPTER XXXV GENERAL REMARKS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SURGERY IN EUROPE DURING THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES
47. 47.CHAPTER XXXVI SURGERY IN GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND DURING THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES
48. 48.CHAPTER XXXVII THE DEVELOPMENT OF SURGERY IN ITALY DURING THE RENAISSANCE
49. 49.CHAPTER XXXVIII THE DEVELOPMENT OF SURGERY IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL DURING THE RENAISSANCE
50. 50.CHAPTER XXXIX THE DEVELOPMENT OF SURGERY IN FRANCE DURING THE RENAISSANCE.—PIERRE FRANCO
51. 51.CHAPTER XL THE DEVELOPMENT OF SURGERY IN FRANCE (Continued).—AMBROISE PARÉ
52. 52.CHAPTER XLI SURGERY IN GREAT BRITAIN DURING THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
53. 53.CHAPTER XLII REFORMS INSTITUTED BY THE ITALIAN SURGEON MAGATI IN THE TREATMENT OF WOUNDS.—FINAL ENDING OF THE FEUD BETWEEN THE SURGEONS AND THE PHYSICIANS OF PARIS.—REVIVAL OF INTEREST IN THE SCIENCE OF OBSTETRICS
54. 54.CHAPTER XLIII THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF SYPHILIS IN EUROPE AS AN EPIDEMIC DISEASE.—MEDICAL JOURNALISM.—THE BEGINNINGS OF A MODERN PHARMACOPOEIA.—ITINERANT LITHOTOMISTS
55. 55.LIST OF THE MORE IMPORTANT AUTHORITIES CONSULTED
56. 56.GENERAL INDEX — FOOTNOTES:

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