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The book presents a concise survey of medical thought and practice from ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Chinese, and early Greek origins through Alexandrian anatomical advances, Arabic and medieval European schools, and Renaissance and modern reforms. It outlines major theoretical systems—dogmatism, methodism, empiricism, eclecticism—profiles influential authors and surgeons, and examines institutional developments such as universities and medical schools. The narrative emphasizes recurring mistakes and discoveries, explores the complex relationship between medicine, theology, and natural science, and illustrates key points with portraits and engravings while adapting a lecture course for students and interested lay readers.





INDEX.

INDEX.

     Advances in other sciences, 153     Ægidius, 077     Æsclepiadæ, 011     Æsculapius, 007     Ætius, 049     Age of foundation, 012     Age of renovation, 012     Age of transition, 012     Agnew, D. Hayes, 295     Akenside, 213     Albiuus, 164     Albucassis, 063     Alchemists and charlatans, the, 187     Alchemy, 141     Alexander of Tralles, 050     Alexandria, library of, 031          school of, 032     Alkindus, 060     Ambulant physicians, 017     Amendment in medical affairs, 151     American teaching of to-dav, 298     Amphitheatres, dissecting, 111     Amussat, 269     Anæsthesia, history of, 300     Anatomic period, 012, 030     Anatomy and physiology of Galen, 039     Anatomy, chairs of, 111     Andral, 245     Andry, 177     Anel, 215     Animalculists, 183     Animism, 196     Animists, 183     Antiseptics, history of, 317     Antyllus, 051     Arabic period, 012, 057     review of the, 097     Archiaters, 053     Aretæus, 034     Argentier, John, 0146
     Aristotle, 028     Arlt, 253     Arnold de Villeneuve, 088     Asclepiades of Bytlunia, 044     Aselli, 160     Astrology, 141     Astruc, 138, 214     Aubrey, 183     Auscultation, 262     Avenbrugger, Leopold, 210     Avenzoar, 064     Averroës, 064     Avicenna, 061
     Bache, Franklin, 287     Baclitischua, 059     Bacon, Lord, 153     Bacon, Roger, 068     Baglivi, 162, 172     Baillie, 213, 224     Barba, 165     Barthez, 201     Bartholin, 161, 184     Barton, John Rhea, 293     Baseilliac, 214     Bayle, 245     Bell, Benjamin, 219     Bell, John, 219     Bell, Sir Charles, 219, 274     Bellini, 172     Benivieni, 114     Bernard, Claude. 247
     Bernard the Provincial, 077     Bhang, 301     Bichat, 160, 162, 164, 208     Bienaise, 177     Bigelow, Henry J., 295     Bilguer, 215     Billroth, Theodor, 264     Blumenbach, 222     Boerhaave, 193          influence of, 168     Boerhaave's, clinics, 167          system of medicine, 194     theory of inflammation, 164     Bonnet, 270     Bordeu, 201     Borelli, 160, 172     Borri, 176     Botal, Leonard, 146     Boucliut, 259     Boyer, 267     Boylston, Dr., 279     Bouillaud, 244     Boulot, 177     Bourgeois, Louise, 166     Braid, Dr. James, 204     Braidism, 204     Brainard, Daniel, 295     Brasdor, 214     Brigham, 290     Brisseau, 178     Brissot, practice of bleeding by, 118     British surgeons, modern, 275     Brodie, Sir Benjamin, 273     Bronssais, 243     Brown, Dr. John, 200     Browne, Sir Thomas, 175     Brunner, 183     Brunonian doctrine, 205     Buck, Gurdon, 293     Bumstead, Freeman J., 289     Burking, 231
     Cabalistic theory, 141     Cæsareau operation, 134     Camper, Peter, 219     Cardan, Jerome, 142     Cardinal powder, 165     Carion, Stellwag von, 253     Casserius, 162     Cataract, 178     Cathedral medical schools, 089     Cell, the term, 153     Cellular pathology, 256     Celsus, Cornelius, 036     Cesalpinus, 155     Chamberlain's obstetric forceps, 166     Chapman, Nathaniel, 286     Charitable institutions, ancient, 055     Chemical system of medicine, 169     Cheselden, 216     Cheyne, John, 248     Chinese, medicine of the, 005     Chiron, 007     Chloroform, discovery of, 303          Simpson's introduction, 313     Chopart, 314     Circulation, capillary, discovery of, 158          discovery of the, 155, 160          lesser, 112          failure to discover the, 113     Civiale, 269     Clark, Alonzo, 288     Classification of the history of medicine, 012     Clinical teaching, earliest systematic, 167     Cloquet, 269     Cnidus, Temple of Æsculapius at, 009     Cocaine, 314     Coction, doctrine of, 024     Colics, Abram, 248     Collot family of lithotomists, 177     Colonial physicians, 276     Columbus, 107, 155     Compass, invention of the, 099     Constantine the African, 074     Contrastimolo, 210     Cooper, Bransby, 273             Samuel, 273             Sir Astley, 271     Cornelius Agrippa, 139     Corpuscles of the blood, 158     Corvisart, 168     Cos, 019          Temple of Æsculapius at, 009     Cosmogony, Greek, 013     Countess's powder, 165     Cowper, 158, 182, 183     Cox, John R., 286     Crisis, doctrine of, 025     Cruveilhier, 245     Cullen, William, 198     Currie, 229     Czermak, 253
     Dalton, John C., 288     Darwin, Charles, 237          Erasmus, 202     Daviel, 215     De Graaf, 183     De Haën, 200     De la Marche, Marguerite, 182     Delafield, Edward, 290     De Launay, 177     Delamotte, 166, 182     Delpech, 268     De Marque, 177     Denis, Jean Baptiste, 176     Denman, Thomas, 220     Dental surgery, the first college of, 341     Dentistry, ancient and mediaeval, 332          as a specialty of medicine, 337          in America, 341          of prehistoric times, 331          relation of, to modern surgical pathology, 340     Desault, P. J., 214, 267     Devanter, 166     Dewees, William P., 288     Diagnosis, exact methods in, 263     Dionis, Pierre, 177     Dissection, ceremonials previous to, 149          difficulties attending, 103          of human bodies, 32
     Doctor's mob in New York, 284     Dodart, 172
     Eberle, John, 286     Eclectics, 014, 046     Embalming, 003     Empedocles, 017     Empirics, 014     Engraving, 100     Engravings, first anatomical, 112     Epidanrus, Temple of Æsculapius at, 010     Erasistratus, 034     Erudite period, 013     Esquirol, 228     Ether, sulphuric, as an anæsthetic, 302     Eustachius, 107     Eve, Paul F., 291
     Fabre, 164     Fabricius ab Aquapeiulente, 109     Fabricius Hildanus, 110, 178     Fallopius, 109     Faust, 100     Fermentation, the causes of, 319     Fernel, Jean, 115     Fidelis, on legal medicine, 167     Filkin, 217     First hospitals in United States, 283     First medical schools in the United States, 281     Flint, Austin, 288     Fothergill, John, 212     Francis, John W., 286     Frank, J. P., 212     Frère Come, 214     Frère Jacques, 177     Frick, 290     Fuchs, 253     Functions of the spinal nerves, discovery of the, 248
     Gaddesden, John, 087     Galen, anatomy and physiology of, 039     Galen, Claudius, 036     Galen's, influence, 043     theories, 039     Gardiner, 199     Garengeot, 213     Gaub, 195     Gerard of Cremona, 090     Gerdy, 270     Germicides, internal use of, 329     Germ-theory of disease, 259     what it means, 323     Gibson, William, 263     Gilbert, of England, 087     Gimbernat, 215     Glisson, 163, 183     Goerter, 163     Goode, John Mason, 247     Goodwin, 160     Goursaud, 177     Graves, Robert, 248     Gray, John P., 290     Greece, medicine of, 016     Greek period, 012, 049     Gregory, 199     Griesinger, 254     Gross, Samuel P., 294     Guillemeau, Jacob, 131     Gunn, Moses, 295     Guthrie, 273     Guttenberg, 100     Guy de Chauliac, 093     Gymnasia, the, 018     Gymnasiarch, 018     Gymnast, 018
     Hahn, 229     Hahnemann, 241     Haller, 160, 162, 163, 220     Ilaly-Abbas, 061     Hamilton, Frank H., 293     Harvey, Gideon, 175     J. William, 155     Hasheesh, 301     Hasner, 253     Havers, 183     Heberden, 212     Hebra, 253     Hebrews, medicine of the, 003     Heister, 215     Helvetius, 160     Henle, 254     Henri de Mondeville, 088     Herophilus, 033     Hessenfratz, 160     Heurne, Otto de, bedside instruction by, 167     Hewson, 161     Hiera sacra, 003     Highmore, 183     Hippocrates, 019     Hirudinomania, 244     Hoboken, 183     Hodgen, John T., 294     Hoffmann, Christopher Ludwig, 200     Hoffmann, Friedrich, 197     Hoffmann's dynamic system, 197     Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 290     Home, Sir Everard, 224     Homoeopathy, 241     Horner, W. E., 287     Hospitals and clinics, 231     Howard, John, 212     Hufeland, 240     Humanization of vaccine-virus, 228     Hunter, John, 164, 218     William, 218     Hunters' study of the lymphatic system, the, 161     Huxham, John, 212     Hydrotlierapeutic system, 255     Hydrotherapy, 229
     Iatrocliemical system, 169     Iatroliptes, 018     Iatromechanical school, 171     Infarctus, doctrine of, 201     Influence,
          of botany on medicine, 237          of chemistry on medicine, 238          of Darwin and Spencer on medicine, 237          of Harvey's discovery, 159          of physics on medicine, 238          of the art of printing, 100          of the French Revolution, 191          of the Northern invaders, 071          of the occult sciences, 139          of the Salernian school, 081          of zoology on medicine, 238     Inoculation, against small-pox, in America, 279     Inoculation, preventive, against smallpox, 225     with cow-pox, the first, 226     Irritability of tissues, discovery of, 163     Isopathy, 241
     Jackson, Charles T., 310     Jacobus Sylvius, 103     Jager, 253     Jaxtthal, 253     Jenner, Edward, 226     Jesuit powder, 165     Jews, prejudice against the, 233     John Actuarius, 066     John of Procida, 079     Joubert's Popular Errors, 147