Arabian medicine : being the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at the College of physicians in November 1919 and November 1920 / by Edward G. Browne.

  • Browne, Edward Granville, 1862-1926.
Date:
1921
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Credit: Arabian medicine : being the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at the College of physicians in November 1919 and November 1920 / by Edward G. Browne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Part I. Treats of certain general philosophical ideas, the categories, natures, elements, metamorphosis, genesis and decay. Part II. Treats of embryology, pregnancy, the func¬ tions and morphology of different organs, ages and seasons, psychology, the external and internal senses, the temperaments and emotions, personal idiosyncrasies, certain nervous affections (tetanus, torpor, palpitation, nightmare, etc.), the evil eye, hygiene and dietetics. Part III. Treats of nutrition and dietetics. Part IV. (The longest, comprising 12 Discourses) treats of general and special pathology, from the head to the feet, and concludes with an account of the number of muscles, nerves and veins, and disserta¬ tions on phlebotomy, the pulse and urinoscopy. Part V. Treats of tastes, scents and colours. Part VI. Treats of materia medica and toxicology. Part VII. Treats of climate, waters and seasons in their relation to health, outlines of cosmography and astronomy, and the utility of the science of medicine: and concludes, as already noted, with a summary of Indian Medicine in 36 chapters. It will be noticed that the book contains very little about anatomy or surgery and a great deal about climate, diet and drugs, including poisons. Part IV, dealing with pathology, is on the whole the most interesting, and I may, perhaps, be permitted to enumerate more fully the contents of the 12 Discourses which it comprises: Discourse 1 (9 chapters) on general pathology, the signs and symptoms of internal disorders, and the principles of therapeutics. Discourse 2 (14 chapters) on diseases and injuries of the head; and diseases of the brain, including epi¬ lepsy, various kinds of headache, tinnitus, vertigo, amnesia, and nightmare.