An Introduction to the History of Medicine: From the Time of the Pharaohs to the End of the Xviiith Century

ISBN-13: 9781138394506 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 468 str.

Charles Greene Cumston

Opis

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 16^th century, and examines the work of Hippocrates and Galen.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Greene Cumston, Charles