The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art / A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries Papyras Classics

The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art / A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries

by Edward Berdoe

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Chapter I. Primitive Man a Savage
  3. Chapter II. Animism
  4. Chapter III. Savage Theories of Disease
  5. Chapter IV. Magic and Sorcery in the Treatment of Disease
  6. Chapter V. Primitive Medicine
  7. Chapter VI. Primitive Surgery
  8. Chapter VII. Universality of the Use of Intoxicants
  9. Chapter VIII. Customs Connected with Pregnancy and Child-Bearing
  10. Chapter I. Egyptian Medicine
  11. Chapter II. Jewish Medicine
  12. Chapter III. The Medicine of Chaldæa, Babylonia, and Assyria
  13. Chapter IV. The Medicine of the Hindus
  14. Chapter V. Medicine in China, Tartary, and Japan
  15. Chapter VI. The Medicine of the Parsees
  16. Chapter I. The Medicine of the Greeks Before the Time of Hippocrates
  17. Chapter II. The Medicine of Hippocrates and His Period
  18. Chapter III. Post-Hippocratic Greek Medicine.—The Schools of Medicine
  19. Chapter IV. The Earlier Roman Medicine
  20. Chapter V. Later Roman Medicine
  21. Chapter VI. Amulets and Charms in Medicine
  22. Chapter I. Medicine of the Druids, Teutons, Anglo-Saxons, and Welsh
  23. Chapter II. Mohammedan Medicine
  24. Chapter III. Rise of the Monasteries
  25. Chapter IV. Rise of the Universities
  26. Chapter V. The School of Salerno
  27. Chapter VI. The Thirteenth Century
  28. Chapter VII. The Fourteenth Century
  29. Chapter VIII. The Fifteenth Century
  30. Chapter IX. Medicine in Ancient Mexico and Peru
  31. Chapter I. The Sixteenth Century
  32. Chapter II. The Seventeenth Century
  33. Chapter III. Skatological Medicine and the Reform of Pharmacology
  34. Chapter IV. Baths and Mineral Waters
  35. Chapter V. Witchcraft and Medicine
  36. Chapter VI. Medical Superstitions
  37. Chapter VII. The Eighteenth Century
  38. Chapter I. The Ninteenth Century.—Physical Science Allied to Medicine
  39. Chapter II. Medical Reforms
  40. Chapter III. The Germ Theory of Disease
  41. Appendix. On Some of the More Important Minerals Used in Medicine

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