The Medical Profession in Ancient Times: An Anniversary Discourse Delivered Before the New York Academy of Medicine, November 7, 1855 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Medical Profession in Ancient Times: An Anniversary Discourse Delivered Before the New York Academy of Medicine, November 7, 1855

Led on by the attractive nature of the study, I have extended my researches beyond the period of Greek and Roman antiquity; and have on hand the materials for a somewhat similar account of the pro fession among the Arabs of the East and West, among the Byzantine and Latin schools, and the monastic medical institutions 'of the middle ages; which I hope on some favorable occasion also to pre sent to the New York Academy of Medicine, to whom the present work is most respectfully in scribed.

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