Volume 2

An introduction to the history of medicine : from the time of the pharaohs to the end of the XVIIIth century / by Charles Greene Cumston ; with an essay on the relation of history and philosophy to medicine, by F.G. Crookshank.

  • Cumston, Charles Greene, 1868-1927.
Date:
1926
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An introduction to the history of medicine : from the time of the pharaohs to the end of the XVIIIth century / by Charles Greene Cumston ; with an essay on the relation of history and philosophy to medicine, by F.G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS PAGE Foreword ........ xi Introductory Essay. By Dr. Crookshank . . xiii Introduction ....... 3 I. The Evolution oe Medicine ... 9 II. Egyptian Medicine ..... 31 III. Hindu Medicine. Chaldean and Persian Medicine ...... 50 IV. The Philosophers ..... 72 V. The Hippocratic Oath .... 86 VI. Hippocrates, and the Hippocratic Collec¬ tion ....... 94 VII. The DIRECT Successors of Hippocrates. The School of Alexandria. Erasis- TRATUS AND HeROPHILUS . . . 106 VHI. The School of Empirics. Asclepiades : HIS Medical System . . . . 115 IX. The Methodic Sect. Themison and Thessalus. The Pneumatic Sect. The Eclectics and Compilers . . 124 X. SoRANUs. Caelius Aurelianus and his De Morhis A cutis et Chronicis Libri VIII 133 XI. Galen ....... 153 XII. The Practice of Medicine at Rome . . 169 XIII. Islamic Medicine . . . . .185 XIV. The Medical Schools of Salerno and Montpellier. The Arabists . . 212 XV. Medicine in the XVIth Century . . 237 XVI. Physiology, Anatomy, Pathology, Noso¬ logy, Therapeutics, and Surgery in THE XVIth Century . . .250