The growth of medicine from the earliest times to about 1800
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1. Front matter2. THE GROWTH OF MEDICINE3. THE WILLIAMS MEMORIAL PUBLICATION FUND4. PREFACE5. CHAPTER I DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENCE AND ART OF MEDICINE6. CHAPTER II ORIENTAL MEDICINE7. CHAPTER III ORIENTAL MEDICINE (Continued)8. CHAPTER IV GREEK MEDICINE AT THE DAWN OF HISTORY9. CHAPTER V THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SERPENT IN THE STATUES AND VOTIVE OFFERINGS EXPOSED TO VIEW IN THE AESCULAPIAN TEMPLES10. CHAPTER VI THE BEGINNINGS OF A RATIONAL SYSTEM OF MEDICINE IN GREECE11. CHAPTER VII HIPPOCRATES THE GREAT12. CHAPTER VIII BRIEF EXTRACTS FROM SOME OF THE HIPPOCRATIC WRITINGS13. 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 MEDICINE14. CHAPTER X ERASISTRATUS AND HEROPHILUS, THE TWO GREAT LEADERS IN MEDICINE AT ALEXANDRIA; THE FOUNDING OF NEW SECTS15. CHAPTER XI ASCLEPIADES, THE INTRODUCER OF GREEK MEDICINE INTO ROME16. CHAPTER XII THE STATE OF MEDICINE AT ROME AFTER THE DEATH OF ASCLEPIADES; THE FOUNDING OF THE SCHOOL OF THE METHODISTS17. 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 MEDICINE18. CHAPTER XIV WELL-KNOWN MEDICAL AUTHORS OF THE EARLY CENTURIES OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA19. CHAPTER XV CLAUDIUS GALEN20. CHAPTER XVI THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY UPON THE EVOLUTION OF MEDICINE21. CHAPTER XVII THE CONDITION OF MEDICINE AT BYZANTIUM DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE MIDDLE AGES22. CHAPTER XVIII BEGINNING OF THE ARAB RENAISSANCE UNDER THE CALIPHS OF BAGDAD23. CHAPTER XIX FURTHER ADVANCE OF THE ARAB RENAISSANCE DURING THE NINTH AND SUCCEEDING CENTURIES OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA24. CHAPTER XX HOSPITALS AND MONASTERIES IN THE MIDDLE AGES25. CHAPTER XXI MEDICAL INSTRUCTION AT SALERNO, ITALY, IN THE MIDDLE AGES26. CHAPTER XXII EARLY EVIDENCES OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE RENAISSANCE UPON THE PROGRESS OF MEDICINE IN WESTERN EUROPE27. CHAPTER XXIII FURTHER PROGRESS OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY IN WESTERN EUROPE DURING THE THIRTEENTH, FOURTEENTH AND A PART OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURIES28. CHAPTER XXIV DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE MIDDLE AGES SURGERY ASSUMES THE MOST PROMINENT PLACE IN THE ADVANCE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE29. CHAPTER XXV BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ALLIED SCIENCES—PHARMACY, CHEMISTRY AND BALNEOTHERAPEUTICS30. CHAPTER XXVI IMPORTANT EVENTS THAT PRECEDED THE RENAISSANCE—EARLY ATTEMPTS TO DISSECT THE HUMAN BODY31. CHAPTER XXVII THE FOUNDERS OF HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY32. 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 TOPICS33. 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 CHYLE34. CHAPTER XXX ADVANCES MADE IN INTERNAL MEDICINE AND IN THE COLLATERAL BRANCHES OF BOTANY, PHARMACOLOGY, CHEMISTRY AND PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY35. CHAPTER XXXI CHEMISTRY AND EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY36. CHAPTER XXXII SOME OF THE LEADERS IN MEDICINE IN ITALY, FRANCE AND ENGLAND DURING THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES37. 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 STAHL38. CHAPTER XXXIV HERMANN BOERHAAVE OF LEYDEN, HOLLAND, ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED PHYSICIANS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY39. CHAPTER XXXV GENERAL REMARKS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SURGERY IN EUROPE DURING THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES40. CHAPTER XXXVI SURGERY IN GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND DURING THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES41. CHAPTER XXXVII THE DEVELOPMENT OF SURGERY IN ITALY DURING THE RENAISSANCE42. CHAPTER XXXVIII THE DEVELOPMENT OF SURGERY IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL DURING THE RENAISSANCE43. CHAPTER XXXIX THE DEVELOPMENT OF SURGERY IN FRANCE DURING THE RENAISSANCE.—PIERRE FRANCO44. CHAPTER XL THE DEVELOPMENT OF SURGERY IN FRANCE (Continued).—AMBROISE PARÉ45. CHAPTER XLI SURGERY IN GREAT BRITAIN DURING THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES46. 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 OBSTETRICS47. CHAPTER XLIII THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF SYPHILIS IN EUROPE AS AN EPIDEMIC DISEASE.—MEDICAL JOURNALISM.—THE BEGINNINGS OF A MODERN PHARMACOPOEIA.—ITINERANT LITHOTOMISTS48. LIST OF THE MORE IMPORTANT AUTHORITIES CONSULTED49. GENERAL INDEX