Description |
xiv, 633 pages ; 24 cm |
Note |
Reprint of the 1921 ed. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Primitive Roman medicine.--Early Roman medicine.--Origins of Greek physiology--Ionian and Italo-Sicilian.--Alexandrian medicine.--Settlement of Greek physicians in Rome.--The doctrine of Methodism.--Celsus, Musa, Pliny.-- Soranus.--Pneumatism.--Some pneumatist and electic physicians.--Rufus and Galen.--Pulse doctrines.--Doctrines of generation.--Hygiene and therapeutics.-- On certain diseases.--Pharmacy and toxicology.--Byzantine medicine.--Salerno.-- Public medical service and the growth of hospitals.--A chair of medicine in the 15th century.--The rise of the experimental method in Oxford.--Medicine in 1800.--Medicine in the 20th century.--Palissy, Bacon, and the revival of natural science. |
Subject |
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
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Medicine, Greek and Roman. |
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Medicine.
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Medicine. |
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