The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art
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- A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries
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1. Front matter2. THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE HEALING ART3. PREFACE.4. ILLUSTRATIONS.5. BOOK I. THE MEDICINE OF PRIMITIVE MAN.6. CHAPTER I. PRIMITIVE MAN A SAVAGE.7. CHAPTER II. ANIMISM.8. CHAPTER III. SAVAGE THEORIES OF DISEASE.9. CHAPTER IV. MAGIC AND SORCERY IN THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE.10. CHAPTER V. PRIMITIVE MEDICINE.11. CHAPTER VI. PRIMITIVE SURGERY.12. CHAPTER VII. UNIVERSALITY OF THE USE OF INTOXICANTS.13. CHAPTER VIII. CUSTOMS CONNECTED WITH PREGNANCY AND CHILD-BEARING.14. CHAPTER I. EGYPTIAN MEDICINE.15. CHAPTER II. JEWISH MEDICINE.16. CHAPTER III. THE MEDICINE OF CHALDÆA, BABYLONIA, AND ASSYRIA.17. CHAPTER IV. THE MEDICINE OF THE HINDUS.18. CHAPTER V. MEDICINE IN CHINA, TARTARY, AND JAPAN.19. CHAPTER VI. THE MEDICINE OF THE PARSEES.20. CHAPTER I. THE MEDICINE OF THE GREEKS BEFORE THE TIME OF HIPPOCRATES.21. CHAPTER II. THE MEDICINE OF HIPPOCRATES AND HIS PERIOD.22. CHAPTER III. POST-HIPPOCRATIC GREEK MEDICINE.—THE SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE.23. CHAPTER IV. THE EARLIER ROMAN MEDICINE.24. CHAPTER V. LATER ROMAN MEDICINE.25. CHAPTER VI. AMULETS AND CHARMS IN MEDICINE.26. CHAPTER I. MEDICINE OF THE DRUIDS, TEUTONS, ANGLO-SAXONS, AND WELSH.27. CHAPTER II. MOHAMMEDAN MEDICINE.28. CHAPTER III. RISE OF THE MONASTERIES.29. CHAPTER IV. RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES.30. CHAPTER V. THE SCHOOL OF SALERNO.31. CHAPTER VI. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.32. CHAPTER VII. THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.33. CHAPTER VIII. THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.34. CHAPTER IX. MEDICINE IN ANCIENT MEXICO AND PERU.35. CHAPTER I. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.36. CHAPTER II. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.37. CHAPTER III. SKATOLOGICAL MEDICINE AND THE REFORM OF PHARMACOLOGY.38. CHAPTER IV. BATHS AND MINERAL WATERS.39. CHAPTER V. WITCHCRAFT AND MEDICINE.40. CHAPTER VI. MEDICAL SUPERSTITIONS.41. CHAPTER VII. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.42. CHAPTER I. THE NINTEENTH CENTURY.—PHYSICAL SCIENCE ALLIED TO MEDICINE.43. CHAPTER II. MEDICAL REFORMS.44. CHAPTER III. THE GERM THEORY OF DISEASE.45. APPENDIX. ON SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT MINERALS USED IN MEDICINE.46. INDEX.