Contents: |
Primitive notions of health and disease --
Achievements and superstitions of Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians --
Ancient Egypt: promise limited by magic --
Beginnings of western science: Cretan hygiene and Greek medical schools --
Greece: Hippocrates, father of all medicine --
Inheritors of Hippocrates: Alexandria and Rome to A.D. 200 --
Thousand years of darkness: Europe A.D. 200 to 1200 --
Dry bones stir and learning awakes: A.D. 1200 to 1450 --
Foundation of the modern period of medicine: A.D. 1450 to 1600 --
Enemies of man: plague and epidemic --
Science in the seventeenth century: the Royal Society, Sanctorius and Harvey --
New schools of thought: chemistry and mathematics in medicine --
Microscope and the discovery of germs --
Basis of modern pneumo-therapy: first researches in breathing --
Thomas Sydenham, the master of clinical medicine --
Eighteenth century, an era of hygiene --
eighteenth century influences on modern medicine --
Inoculation and the beginnings of immunisation --
Growth of hospitals and the "sanitary idea" --
Notes on the epoch of modern medicine. |
