PREFACE

PROLOGUE

CONTENTS

PART I. THE PREDICATE OF MEDICINE

PART II. THE LEGACY OF MEDICINE TO

CIVILIZATION

First: The Mythical Period.

CHAPTER I. THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE

Second: Period of Hippocrates

CHAPTER II. THE RISE of Greek MEDICINE

Third: Period of Aristotle

CHAPTER III. GREEK MEDICINE (CONTINUED)

Fourth: The Mediæval Period

CHAPTER IV. IMPOSTURE MEDICINE

Fifth: Period of the Renaissance .

CHAPTER V. MEDICINE IN THE SIXTEENTH

CENTURY

CHAPTER VI. MEDICINE IN THE SEVEN-

TEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER VII. MEDICINE IN THE EIGH-

TEENTH CENTURY

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CHAPTER VIII. MEDICINE IN THE EIGH-

TEENTH CENTURY (CONTINUED)

CHAPTER IX. MEDICINE IN THE EIGH-

TEENTH CENTURY (CONCLUDED)

CHAPTER X. STATE OF MEDICINE IN A.D.

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From an ancient Dioscordian manuscript in the
Imperial Library of Vienna-Russell.

THOMAS SYDENHAM

From a print prefixed to his works.
From Russell's History and Heroes of Medicine.

From Russell's History and Heroes of Medicine.

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AMBROISE PARÉ

From the original picture, L'École de Médecine,
Paris..

HERMAN BOERHAAVE

From a painting by Mandelaar-Russell.

ALBERT VON HALLER

WILLIAM CULLEN

From Russell's History and Heroes of Medicine.

Courtesy of Mlle. Laflin, Paris.

JOHN HUNTER

From a print engraved and colored by I. R. Smith in
possession of the late John Ring, Esq.

Gemahlt von Schoppe, 1831. By courtesy of Mlle.
Laflin, Paris.

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