CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY 1-9

Hippocrates--Celsus--Rufus of Ephesus--Aretaeus of Cappadocia--Galen--Oribasius--Soranus of Ephesus--Moschion-- Caelius Aurelianus--Aetius--Pliny the Younger--Scribonius Largus--Marcellus Empiricus--Theodorus Priscianus--Alexander Trallianus--Paulus Aegineta--Hero of Alexandria--Christian Fathers--The Arabs--Paré--Scultetus--Heister.