The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art

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Author

Berdoe, Edward, 1836-1916

Title

The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries

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E-text prepared by Turgut Dincer, Les Galloway, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

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English

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R: Medicine

Subject

Medicine -- History

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Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 59331

Release Date

April 22, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Turgut Dincer, Les Galloway, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( https://archive.org )
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE HEALING ART
5. 5.PREFACE.
6. 6.Untitled
7. 7.ILLUSTRATIONS.
8. 8.CONTENTS.
9. 9.BOOK I. THE MEDICINE OF PRIMITIVE MAN.
10. 10.CHAPTER I. PRIMITIVE MAN A SAVAGE.
11. 11.CHAPTER II. ANIMISM.
12. 12.CHAPTER III. SAVAGE THEORIES OF DISEASE. — I. Anger of Offended Demons. — II. Witchcraft as a Cause of Disease. — III. Offence to the Dead as a Cause of Disease.
13. 13.CHAPTER IV. MAGIC AND SORCERY IN THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE.
14. 14.CHAPTER V. PRIMITIVE MEDICINE.
15. 15.CHAPTER VI. PRIMITIVE SURGERY.
16. 16.CHAPTER VII. UNIVERSALITY OF THE USE OF INTOXICANTS.
17. 17.CHAPTER VIII. CUSTOMS CONNECTED WITH PREGNANCY AND CHILD-BEARING.
18. 18.BOOK II. THE MEDICINE OF THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS.
19. 19.CHAPTER I. EGYPTIAN MEDICINE.
20. 20.CHAPTER II. JEWISH MEDICINE.
21. 21.CHAPTER III. THE MEDICINE OF CHALDÆA, BABYLONIA, AND ASSYRIA.
22. 22.CHAPTER IV. THE MEDICINE OF THE HINDUS.
23. 23.CHAPTER V. MEDICINE IN CHINA, TARTARY, AND JAPAN. — Japanese Medicine.
24. 24.CHAPTER VI. THE MEDICINE OF THE PARSEES.
25. 25.BOOK III. GREEK MEDICINE.
26. 26.CHAPTER I. THE MEDICINE OF THE GREEKS BEFORE THE TIME OF HIPPOCRATES. — Gods of Medicine. — The Medicine of Homer. — The Temples of Æsculapius. — The Early Ionic Philosophers. — The School of the Pythagoreans at Crotona. — Greek Theories of Disease. — Schools of the Asclepiades. — The Oath.
27. 27.CHAPTER II. THE MEDICINE OF HIPPOCRATES AND HIS PERIOD. — The Law.
28. 28.CHAPTER III. POST-HIPPOCRATIC GREEK MEDICINE.—THE SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE. — The Dogmatic School. — The School of Alexandria. — School of the Empirics. — The Scythians. — Greek Medical Literature.
29. 29.CHAPTER IV. THE EARLIER ROMAN MEDICINE. — School of the Methodists. — Greek and Roman Pharmacy.
30. 30.CHAPTER V. LATER ROMAN MEDICINE. — The Sect of the Pneumatists. — The Sect of the Eclectics — Influence of Christianity — Ancient Surgical Instruments.
31. 31.CHAPTER VI. AMULETS AND CHARMS IN MEDICINE. — Gnostic and Christian Amulets. — Herbs, Animals, etc., as Amulets. — Knots as Charms. — Precious Stones as Charms. — Signatures. — Numbers. — Girdles. — Spittle. — Talismans. — Scripts. — Characts. — Sacred Names as Charms. — Stolen Property as a Charm.
32. 32.BOOK IV. CELTIC, TEUTONIC, AND MEDIÆVAL MEDICINE.
33. 33.CHAPTER I. MEDICINE OF THE DRUIDS, TEUTONS, ANGLO-SAXONS, AND WELSH. — Medicine of the Druids. — Medicine of the Teutons. — Medicine of the Welsh. — Medical Maxims.
34. 34.CHAPTER II. MOHAMMEDAN MEDICINE. — The Caliphs. — Baghdad. — The Great Arabian Physicians.
35. 35.CHAPTER III. RISE OF THE MONASTERIES. — The Origin of Chemistry.
36. 36.CHAPTER IV. RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES. — School of Montpellier. — Divorce of Medicine from Surgery.
37. 37.CHAPTER V. THE SCHOOL OF SALERNO.
38. 38.CHAPTER VI. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
39. 39.CHAPTER VII. THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. — Revival of Human Anatomy. — Domestic Medicine in Chaucer’s Time. — Fellowship of Barbers and Surgeons. — The Black Death. — The Dancing Mania. — Pharmacy.
40. 40.CHAPTER VIII. THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. — Faith-healing. — Charms and Astrology. — The Revival of Learning. — The Sweating Sickness. — Tarantism.
41. 41.CHAPTER IX. MEDICINE IN ANCIENT MEXICO AND PERU.
42. 42.BOOK V. THE DAWN OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE.
43. 43.CHAPTER I. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. — Influenza. — Legal Recognition of Medical Practitioners. — The Sweating Sickness. — The Royal College of Physicians of London Established. — Legal Medicine.
44. 44.CHAPTER II. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
45. 45.CHAPTER III. SKATOLOGICAL MEDICINE AND THE REFORM OF PHARMACOLOGY. — Materia Medica. — Sympathetical Cures.
46. 46.CHAPTER IV. BATHS AND MINERAL WATERS.
47. 47.CHAPTER V. WITCHCRAFT AND MEDICINE. — Comparative Witchcraft. — Law against Sorcery. — Magic and Medicine. — Magic in Virgil and Horace. — Images of Wax, etc., in Sorcery. — Knots. — White Magic. — Black Magic. — The Evil Eye.
48. 48.CHAPTER VI. MEDICAL SUPERSTITIONS. — Superstitions connected with Death and the Grave. — Teeth Worms. — Disease Transference. — Antidotes. — The Doctrine of Signatures.
49. 49.CHAPTER VII. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. — The Great Schools of Medical Theory. — Physicians. — Hospitals. — Mesmerism. — Surgeons. — Obstetricians.
50. 50.BOOK VI. THE AGE OF SCIENCE.
51. 51.CHAPTER I. THE NINTEENTH CENTURY.—PHYSICAL SCIENCE ALLIED TO MEDICINE. — Medical Systems. — The Natural Sciences. — Chemists. — Electricians. — Anthropology. — Philosophers. — Anatomists and Biologists. — Physicians and Pathologists. — Brain and Nerve Specialists. — Surgeons. — Gynæcologists. — Anatomy in England. — French Surgeons. — German Surgeons. — American Surgeons. — Ophthalmic Surgeons.
52. 52.CHAPTER II. MEDICAL REFORMS. — Conservative Surgery. — Discovery of Anæsthetics. — Medical Literature. — Nursing Reform. — The Treatment of Insanity.
53. 53.CHAPTER III. THE GERM THEORY OF DISEASE. — The Phagocyte Theory. — Ptomaines. — Lister’s Antiseptic Surgery. — Sanitary Science. — Hygiene. — Bacteriologists and other Scientists. — Experimental Physiology.
54. 54.APPENDIX. ON SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT MINERALS USED IN MEDICINE.
55. 55.INDEX. — FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber’s Note

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