History of medicine : Syllabus and specimen extracts.

  • Comrie, John D. (John Dixon), 1875-1939.
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[between 1900 and 1999]
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Credit: History of medicine : Syllabus and specimen extracts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 2 ] LECTURE V.—Hippocrates (c. 430 B.C.) ; life and work ; anatomical knowledge ; Aphorisms ; treatment of pneumonia and of fractures ; case records ; malaria in ancient Greece. Lecture VI.—Aristotle (c. 350 B.C.) ; relations to medical science. Alexander the Great; his interest in medicine; foundation of Alexandria ; its Museum and Medical School; Herophilus, Erasistratus, Hero ; teaching of Anatomy. LECTURE VII.—Rise of Greek Medical ' Systems.' Early Roman medicine ; Etruscan surgery ; medical precepts of Cato (234-149 B.C.); his dislike of Greek doctors. Scribonius Largus. Celsus (c. 50 A.D.); use of the ligature in surgery; cataract operation ; radical cure of hernia. LECTURE VIII.—Pliny (23-79 A.D.) ; his descriptions of remedies ; his death. Surgical instruments found at Pompeii. Aretaeus. Dioscorides (c. 100 A.D.); his Materia Medica. Lecture IX.—Development of Medicine under the Empire. Galen (130-200 A.D.) ; his early training; surgeon to gladiators; practice as a physician in Rome; public lectures; relations to the Court. Standing of the profession ; fees; quacks; oculists; army medical officers ; medicine in the provinces. LECTURE X.—Writings of Galen; their number; his knowledge of physiology ; his work on Dissection ; his methods of treatment.