1st Edition
An Introduction to the History of Medicine From the Time of the Pharaohs to the End of the XVIIIth Century
Originally published in 1926, An Introduction to the History of Medicine is a compilation of reliable and essential contributions to the subject of the history of medicine. The book looks at the evolution of medicine from the practices in Ancient Egypt, to the medicine of the 16th century, and examines the work of Hippocrates and Galen. The book also examines the philosophy that began around the practice of medicine, as well as early discussions of ethics. It also looks at early medicine through the lens of religion, covering the practices of medicine in Hindu, Chaldean and Islamic religions. The book provides a broad coverage of early medicine in ancient civilizations, focusing particularly on Ancient Greece, Persia and Rome.
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
Biography
Greene Cumston, Charles