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An Introduction to the History of Medicine
From the Time of the Pharaohs to the End of the XVIIIth Century
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eBook - ePub
An Introduction to the History of Medicine
From the Time of the Pharaohs to the End of the XVIIIth Century
About this book
Originally published in 1926, An Introduction to the History of Medicine is a compilation of reliable and essential contributions to the subject of the history of medicine. The book looks at the evolution of medicine from the practices in Ancient Egypt, to the medicine of the 16th century, and examines the work of Hippocrates and Galen. The book also examines the philosophy that began around the practice of medicine, as well as early discussions of ethics. It also looks at early medicine through the lens of religion, covering the practices of medicine in Hindu, Chaldean and Islamic religions. The book provides a broad coverage of early medicine in ancient civilizations, focusing particularly on Ancient Greece, Persia and Rome.
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INDEX
Mediaeval persons known only by their Christian name and their place of origin are indexed under the latter, e.g., Milan (John of). French names beginning with a separate Le, La, Du, or Des, are indexed under L or D; in all others the preposition or article is disregarded. In German names the Umlaut is replaced by e.
Aaron of Alexandria, 240
Abella, 218
Aben Guefit, or Ibnu’l-Wafid, 204
Abernethy (John), 367
Abortion, Greek opinion on, 90–1
Abu’l-Abbas,
see Ibnu’l-Baitar
Abulcasis, 201–4, 371
Academy of Athens, 76
Achillini (Alessandro), 291
Ackermann, 334, 366–7
Acron of Agrigentum, 115
Aelius Promotus, 118, 128
Aesculapius, or Asclepius, and medicine, 19, 72
Aetius of Amida, 128, 134, 188, 371
in XVIth cent., 237
Agathinus of Sparta, 130, 146
Agrippa (Heinrich Cornelius) of
Nettesheim, 278, 242–3
Alberti(Michael), 331
Alchemy,
see Chemistry
Alcmaeon of Crotona, 78–80, 84
Alexander Aphrodisiensis, 251, 279
Alexander Philalethes, 113–14
Alexander of Tralles: treatment, 371
influence at Salerno, 214
in XVIth cent., 237
Alexandria, School of, 8, 86, 108–15 369
Ali Abbas, or Ali ibnu’l-Abbas al-Majusi, 191–2, 220
Alphanus II, 214
Alpinus (Pros...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- List of Illustrations
- Contents
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introductory Essay
- Introduction
- I. The Evolution of Medicine
- II. Egyptian Medicine
- III. Hindu Medicine. Chaldean and Persian Medicine
- IV. The Philosophers
- V. The Hippocratic Oath
- VI. Hippocrates, and the Hippocratic Collection
- VII. The Direct Successors of Hippocrates. The School of Alexandria. Erasistratus and Herophilus
- VIII. The School of Empirics. Asclepiades: his Medical System
- IX. The Methodic Sect. Themison and Thessalus. The Pneumatic Sect. The Eclectics and Compilers
- X. Soranus. Caelius Aurelianus and his De Morbis Acutis et Chronicis Libri VIII
- XI. Galen
- XII. The Practice of Medicine at Rome
- XIII. Islamic Medicine
- XIV. The Medical Schools of Salerno and Montpellier. The Arabists
- XV. Medicine in the XVIth Century
- XVI. Physiology, Anatomy, Pathology, Nosology, Therapeutics, And Surgery in the XVIth Century
- XVII. The Principal Doctrines Governing Medicine in the XVIIth Century
- XVIII. The Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Nosography and Therapeutics of the XVIIth Century
- XIX. The Principal Medical Doctrines of the XVIIIth Century
- XX. The Doctrine of Irritability, The Brunonian Theory and Naturalism
- XXI. Organicism and Vitalism
- Concluding Chapter: A Brief Survey of the Evolution of Therapeutics
- Index