First published in 1927, this book provides a complete study of the beginnings and early development of preventive medicine. It looks at the subject's underlying principles and discusses the prominent writers of the past. Topics cover infection, plague, science and medicine, poverty and preventive medicine and the prevention of cholera, amongst others.
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Evolution of Preventive Medicine (Routledge Revivals)
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Topic
MedicineSubtopic
Health Care DeliveryIndex of Proper Names
- Anson, Admiral 192
- Aristotle 14, 25
- Armstrong, G. 61, 206
- Asclepiads 11
- Auenbrugger 53
- Augustine, St. 9
- Avenzoar 163
- Avicenna 69
- Bacon, Francis 24, 26, 35, 103
- Bacon, Roger 17, 24
- Baillie, Matthew 53
- Baker, George 42
- Barlow, T. 210
- Bascome 62
- Bateman, T. 170
- Behring, Von 215, 216
- Bentham, J. 116
- Berkeley, Bishop 156
- Bernard, Claude 55
- Bichat 53
- Blane, G. 110, 192
- Boccaccio 59
- Boerhaave 31, 63
- Boghurst, W. 76
- Bordet 216
- Boyle, Robert 9, 37, 39, 84
- Bretonneau 54, 129
- Bristowe, J. S. 127
- Broussais 53, 64
- Brown, John 63
- Browne, Sir Thomas 9, 16
- Budd, William 139, 146, 160
- Cadogan, W. 206
- Calmette 175
- Carlyle, T. 110
- Carter, H. R. 217
- Cavendish 38
- Celsas 59
- Chadwick, Edwin 106, 116, 137, 149
- Chamberlin 181
- Chapin, C. V. 67
- Chereau 77
- Cook, Captain 42, 192
- Copernicus 36
- Crawford, R. 9, 29
- Cullen 51, 63
- Currie 108
- Davis, J. B. 206
- Davy, H. 41
- Da Vinci, Leonardo 28
- Digby, Kenelm 35
- Dimsdale 170
- Duclaux 54
- Ehrlich 218
- Elliott, J. S. 89
- Esculapius 11
- Farr, William 68, 114, 150, 153
- Ferriar, John 108
- Flügge 218
- Fothergill, J. 114, 173
- Frascatorius 69
- Galen 12, 14, 21, 59, 65
- Galileo 21, 36
- Galvani 36
- Garrison, F. H. vii, 2, 18, 56, 69, 163
- Garrod, A. 34
- Gerhard 129
- Gilbert, W. 36
- Glisson 211
- Gordon, A. ...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contents
- I Introductory
- II Theological and Sacerdotal Obsessions Regarding Disease
- III The Escape from and Relapse into Supernaturalism
- IV The Beginning of Emancipation
- V Stages in and Obstacles to Progress
- VI Relation of Science to Medicine
- VII The Slow Subversion of Authority and Increment of Science
- VIII The Growth of our Knowledge of Infection
- IX Epidemic Constitutions and Epidemiology
- X Early Struggles Against Plague
- XI Contagium Vivum
- XII Sanitation and Social Improvement
- XIII Progress in the Eighteenth and Early Part of the Nineteenth Century
- XIV Poverty and Preventive Medicine
- XV The Prevention of “Fever”
- XVI The Prevention of “Fever” (continued).
- XVII The Prevention of Cholera
- XVIII Disinfection in Preventive Medicine
- XIX Immunisation Against Infection
- XX The Prevention of Non-Specific Infection (Sepsis)
- XXI Food and Drink in Relation to Health
- XXII Infantile Hygiene
- XXIII Modern Preventive Medicine
- Index of Proper Names
- Index of Subjects
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