Outlines of the ancient history of medicine : being a view of the progress of the healing art among the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Arabians / by D.M. Moir.

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[1831]
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Credit: Outlines of the ancient history of medicine : being a view of the progress of the healing art among the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Arabians / by D.M. Moir. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Page Chap. III.—Of Aristotle and the Peripatetic School,.... 81 Chap. IV.—Herophilus—Erasistratus—and the Medi- cal School of Alexandria, 91 Chap. V. ^Asclepiades—Themison—Soranus Ctelius Aurelianus—and the Methodic School, 105 Chap. VI.—Pneumatics and Eclectics—A. C. Celsus Aretseus, and others, 123 Chap. VII.—Rufus—Pedacius Dioscorides—the Elder Pliny, and others, 137 Chap. VIII.—On the Life and Writings of Claudius Galen, 145 Chap. IX.—Decline of Medicine—the Cabbalists—Ori- basius and Numesius, 165 Chap. X.—Theophilus—Paulus iEgineta— Actuarius— Myrepsus—>and Extinction of the Greek School, 188 SECTION THIRD. Chap. I.—Origin and Progress of Medical Science in Arabia—Mesue, Honain,Serapion, Alkhendi, and Rha- zes, 201. Chap. II—Introduction of Chemistry into Medicine— Haly-Abbas, 225 Chap. III.—Life and Writings of Avicenna, 237 Chap. IV—Serapion the Younger—Mesue the Younger —and Albucasis, 253 Chap. V.—Avenzoar—Averrhoes—and Extinction of the Arabian School, 264