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List of contents
Foreword Introductory Essay, Dr Crookshank Introduction 1. The Evolution of Medicine 2. Egyptian Medicine 3. Hindu Medicine. Chaldean and Persian Medicine 4. The Philosophers 5. The Hippocratic Oath 6. Hippocrates, and the Hippocratic Collection 7. The Direct Successors of Hippocrates: The School of Alexandria. Erasistratus and Herophilus 8. The School of Empirics. Asclepiades: His Medical System 9. The Methodic Sect. Themison and Thessalus. The Pneumatic Sect. The Eclectics and Compilers 10. Soranus. Caelius Aurelianus and His: De Morbis Acutis et Chronicis Libri VIII 11. Galen 12. The Practice of Medicine at Rome 13. Islamic Medicine 14. The Medical Schools of Salerno and Montpellier. The Arabists 15. Medicine in the XVIth Century 16. Physiology, Anatomy, Pathology, Nosology, Therapeutics, and Surgery in the XVIth Century 17. The Principal Doctrines Governing Medicine in the XVIIth Century 18. The Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Nosography and Therapeutics of the XVIIth Century 19. The Doctrine of Irritability, the Brunonian Theory and Naturalism 20. Organicism and Vitalism Conclusion: A Brief Survey of the Evolution of Therapeutic Index
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Greene Cumston, Charles
Summary
Originally published in 1926, this book is a compilation of work to the subject of the history of medicine. The book looks at the evolution of medicine from Ancient Egypt, to the 16th century, and examines the work of Hippocrates and Galen.
