Volume 1

The healing art, or chapters upon medicine, diseases, remedies and physicians, historical, biographical and descriptive. / By H. Davenport Adams.

  • Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891.
Date:
1887
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The healing art, or chapters upon medicine, diseases, remedies and physicians, historical, biographical and descriptive. / By H. Davenport Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER L PAGE Early History op Medicine . . . .1 Hippocrates—Galen—Celsus—Paulus Ji]gineta—Tralles. CHAPTER II. The Arabian Physicians . . . . .42 Rhazes—Avicenna—Averroes—Albucasis. CHAPTER III. Further Developments of Medical Science — Medieval Physicians . . . . .52 Touching for the King's Evil—Adelard—Roger Bacon— Mundinus—Guy de Chauliac—English Practitioners—Apothe- caries—Medicine in the Fifteenth Century. CHAPTER IV. The Sixteenth Century—English Physicians . . 75 Thomas Linacre—Andrew Boorde—John Caius—William Bullen. CHAPTER V. Anatomists in the Sixteenth Century . . S6 Gabriel de Zerbi—Berenger de Carpi—Achillini—Gonthier —Vesalius—Fallopius—Columbus—Vidius—Sylvius —A ran- tius—Fabricius—Ambrose Pare.