Category: History - Other
_Medicine Among the Hebrews, the Egyptians, the Orientals, the Chinese, and the Early Greeks.--The Asclepiadæ.--Further Arrangement into Periods ( Renouard's Classification). The Age of Foundation.--The Primitive; Sacred, or Mystic; and Philosophic Periods.--Systems in Vogue:...
_Medicine Among the Hebrews, the Egyptians, the Orientals, the Chinese, and the Early Greeks.--The Asclepiadæ.--Further Arrangement into Periods ( Renouard's Classification). Th...
2. CHAPTER II._Age of Foundation (continued).--Anatomic Period: Influence of the Alexandrian Library. Herophilus and Erasistratus. Aretæus, f B.C. 170. Celsus, A.D. 1-65 (?). Galen.--Empirici...
3. CHAPTER III._Age of Transition (continued).--Arabic Period: A.D. 640-1400. Alkindus, 873. Mesue, 777-857. Rhazes, 850-932. Haly-Abas, 994. Avicenna, 980-1037. Albucassis, 1122. Avenzoar, 11...
4. CHAPTER IV._Age of Transition (concluded).--The School of Montpellier: Raimond Lulli, 1235-1315. John of Gaddesden, 1305--(?). Arnold of Villanova, 12341313. Establishment of Various Unive...
5. CHAPTER V._Age of Renovation (continued).--Erudite Period (continued): Benivieni, 11502. Jean Fern el, 1497-1553. Porta, 1536-1615. Severino, 1580-1656. Incorporation of Brotherhood of St...
6. CHAPTER VI._Age of Renovation (continued).--Student-life During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Ceremonials Previous to Dissection.--Reform Period: The Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and...
7. CHAPTER VII._Age of Rénovation--(continued).--Iatromechanical School: Santoro, 15611635. Borelli, 1608-1679. Sydenham, 1624-1689. Sir Thomas Browne, 1605-1682.--Surgery: Denis, f 1704. F. C...
8. CHAPTER VIII._Age of Renovation (continued).--Animal Magnetism: Mesmer, 1754-1815. Braid.--Brunonianism: John Brown, 1735-1788.--Realism: Pinel, 17451826. Bichat, 1771-1802. Avenbrugger, 172...
9. CHAPTER IX._The Age of Renovation (continued).--The Eighteenth Century; General Considerations. Foundation of Learned Societies, etc. The Royal College of Surgeons, 1800; the Josephinum, 1...
10. CHAPTER X_Age of Transition (concluded).--New Vienna School (concluded): von Hebra, 1816-1880. Czermak and Türck, Jager, Arlt, Gruber, Politzer.--German School of Physiological Medicine:...
11. CHAPTER XI._The Colonial Physicians. Medical Study under Preceptors. Inoculation against Small-pox. Military Surgery during the Revolutionary War. Earliest Medical Teaching and Teachers in...
12. dim. By this performance he became practically the father of modernPerhaps the most eminent surgeon of the country was Valentine Mott (1785-1865), a pupil of Cooper and Bell, who taught in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, until...
13. CHAPTER XII._Anaesthesia and Analgesia. Drugs Possessing Narcotic Properties in use since Prehistoric Times. Mandragora; Hemp; Hasheesh. Sulphuric Ether and the Men Concerned in its Introdu...
14. CHAPTER XIII._Sepsis, Asepsis, and Antisepsis. The Germ-theory of Disease. Gay-Lussac's Researches. Schwann. Tyndall. Pasteur. Davaine. Lord Lister and his Epoch-making Revolution in Surgica...
15. CHAPTER XIV._Rude Dentistry of Prehistoric Times. Early Instruments for Extraction Made of Lead. Dentistry on the Same Low Plane as Medicine during the First Half of the Christian Era. Dent...