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Sketches from the history of medicine, ancient and modern / An oration delivered before the Hunterian Society

Chapter 1: SKETCHES FROM THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
By W. Sedgwick Saunders
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The speaker surveys the social origins and development of medical knowledge and the medical profession, tracing ideas from early oral traditions through religious and legal codes that shaped public health practices. He examines how sanitary regulations, rites such as circumcision, and priestly oversight enforced cleanliness, childbirth precautions, and isolation of infectious sufferers, while critiquing extravagant claims of extreme antiquity for some records and stressing the authority of Mosaic legislation. The address links the transmission of medical customs, the role of law in prescribing hygiene and quarantine, and the gradual institutionalization of medical duties into a recognisable profession.

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Title: Sketches from the history of medicine, ancient and modern

Author: W. Sedgwick Saunders

Release date: October 21, 2022 [eBook #69197]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: The London Institution, 1868

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SKETCHES
FROM
THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Ancient and Modern.
AN ORATION
DELIVERED BEFORE
THE HUNTERIAN SOCIETY,
at the london institution,
ON THE 13TH FEBRUARY, 1867,
BY
Wm. SEDGWICK SAUNDERS, M.D.
LICENTIATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, EDINBURGH.—VICE-PRESIDENT
OF THE HUNTERIAN SOCIETY.—TREASURER TO THE NEW SYDENHAM SOCIETY.—
EXAMINING PHYSICIAN TO THE EAST INDIAN—SCINDE AND DELHI—BOMBAY
AND BARODA—GREAT SOUTHERN OF INDIA—CALCUTTA AND SOUTH EASTERN
—AND OUDE AND ROHILKUND RAILWAY COMPANIES.—MEDICAL OFFICER
TO THE CITY OF GLASGOW LIFE ASSURANCE CORPORATION AND THE
METROPOLITAN FIRE BRIGADE, &c.—AUTHOR OF THE “CAUSES
AND PREVENTION OF CHOLERA” AND “REPORTS ON
CHOLERA IN THE CITY OF LONDON, 1866.”
PRINTED AT THE REQUEST OF THE COUNCIL.
For Private Circulation.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY M. & W. COLLIS. 50, BOW LANE, CHEAPSIDE, E.C.
1868.