The growth of medicine from the earliest times to about 1800 / by Albert H. Buck.

  • Albert Henry Buck
Date:
1917
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    PAET I. ANCIENT MEDICINE PAGE Preface.. Chapter I. Development of the Science and Art of Medicine.. Chapter II. Oriental Medicine.11 Chapter III. Oriental Medicine (continued) ... 25 Chapter IV. Greek Medicine at the Dawn of History . 46 Chapter V. The Significance of the Serpent in the Statues and Votive Offerings Exposed to View in the Aesculapian Temples ..... 62 Chapter VI. The Beginnings of a Rational System of Medicine in Greece.67 Chapter VII. Hippocrates the Great .... 81 Chapter VIII. Brief Extracts from Some of the Hip¬ pocratic Writings.89 Chapter IX. The State of Greek Medicine after the Events of the Peloponnesian War; the Founding of Alexandria in Egypt, at the Mouth of the Nile; and the Development of Different Sects in Medicine . 96 Chapter X. Erasistratus and Herophilus, the Two Great Leaders in Medicine at Alexandria; the Founding of New Sects.104 Chapter XI. Asclepiades, the Introducer of Greek Medi¬ cine into Borne.116 Chapter XII. The State of Medicine at Borne after the Death of Asclepiades; the Founding of the School of the Methodists.129 Chapter XIII. The Further History of Methodism at Rome, and the Development of Two New Sects, viz., the Pneumatists and the Eclectics.—A General Sur¬ vey of the Subject of Sects in Medicine . 138
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