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Numbers in bold denote main reference to subject.
Abano, Pietro d’ (1257–c. 1315) 109
abdomen: abdominal pain, surgery for 600
abdominal surgery 597–8, 610–11
diagnostic examination 677
diseases of, Egypt 48
organs, misplaced and dropped, surgery for 600
tumours, ultrasound for 609 see also stomach
Abel, John Jacob (1857–1938) 450
Abernethy, John (1764–1831) 281, 361, 672
ablation experiments 539
aborigines, Australian 16, 32, 301, 466
Aborigines Protection Society 481
abortion, Frank on 294
abortifacients, herbal 35
abscesses: and sepsis 372
cerebral, surgery 612
described by Ibn Sina 99
Egypt 47
operations, al-Zahrawi 99, see also staphylococci
‘absence’ (epilepsy) 506, 514
Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn ’Abdallah ibn Sina see Ibn Sina
Abu Rayhan ibn Ahmad al-Buruni see al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan ibn Ahmad
academic science (Wissenschaft) 322
Académie Royale des Sciences 211
Acairius, St, shrine 127
Accademia del Cimento 211
accoucheur 273–4, 382
acetylcholine 571, 572–3
acetylsalicylic acid 448n
acid, in digestion 220
acne, X-ray treatment 606–7
aconitine 334
Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome see AIDS
acromegaly 565
Act-Up 707
actinomycin 457
acupuncture: anaesthesia 161
Chinese medicine 149, 157
in western medicine 148, 162
origins 147
20th C 688, 689, see also alternative medicine
acyclovir 459
Adams, Joseph (1756–1818) 586
Adams, Robert (1791–1875) 319, 581
addiction 269–70, 664–6
‘addict type’ 664
addicts and TB 489
anti-addiction drugs 666
chloral hydrate 675
clinics for addicts 666
to surgery 601
tobacco 713
Addison, Thomas (1793–1860) 318, 557
On the Constitutionql and Local Effects of Disease of Suprarenal Capsules 318
Addison, William (1802–1881) 342
Addison’s disease 318, 563, see also anaemia
adenoids, removal 363
Adler, Alfred (1870–1937) 517
Über den nervösen Charackter 517
adrenal glands 563, 564–5
adrenaline 565, 571, 572, 573
‘adrenergic’ nerves 572
Adrian, Edgar Douglas (1889–1977) 336, 549–50
Adulteration of Food Act (1846/7) 411
Adventists (Seventh Day Adventists) 395–6
Aedes aegypti mosquito 300, 473, 475
‘aerial nitre’ 221–2
aerotherapy 254
Aesculapius (Asclepius) 49, 52
aesthetic reconstructive surgery 618
aetiology see theory of disease
Aetius of Amida 89, 603
‘affections’ 172
affective insanity 495, 502
Africa: AIDS in 489, 490–91
attitude to sickness 9
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Praise
- Dedication
- Contents
- I: Introduction
- II: The Roots of Medicine
- III: Antiquity
- IV: Medicine and Faith
- V: The Medieval West
- VI: Indian Medicine
- VII: Chinese Medicine
- VIII: Renaissance
- IX: The New Science
- X: Enlightenment
- XI: Scientific Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
- XII: Nineteenth-Century Medical Care
- XIII: Public Medicine
- XIV: From Pasteur to Penicillin
- XV: Tropical Medicine, World Diseases
- XVI: Psychiatry
- XVII: Medical Research
- XVIII: Clinical Science
- XIX: Surgery
- XX: Medicine, State and Society
- XXI: Medicine and the People
- XXII: The Past, the Present and the Future
- Further Reading
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- About the Publisher