The Evolution of Modern Medicine

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Books4x Company, 1997 - Medicine
 

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PREFACE
5
CHAPTER I ORIGIN OF MEDICINE
8
ORIGIN OF MEDICINE
14
EGYPTIAN MEDICINE
16
ASSYRIAN AND BABYLONIAN MEDICINE
24
HEBREW MEDICINE
33
CHINESE AND JAPANESE MEDICINE
35
CHAPTER II GREEK MEDICINE
39
ARABIAN MEDICINE
84
THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES
93
MEDIAEVAL MEDICAL STUDIES
102
MEDIAEVAL PRACTICE
104
ASTROLOGY AND DIVINATION
105
CHAPTER IV THE RENAISSANCE AND THE RISE OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
111
PARACELSUS
115
VESALIUS
126

ASKLEPIOS
49
HIPPOCRATES AND THE HIPPOCRATIC WRITINGS
55
ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOL
68
GALEN
70
CHAPTER III MEDIAEVAL MEDICINE
77
SOUTH ITALIAN SCHOOL
80
BYZANTINE MEDICINE
83
HARVEY
137
CHAPTER V THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN MEDICINE
149
INTERNAL SECRETIONS
167
CHEMISTRY
168
CHAPTER VI THE RISE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
170
SANITATION
174
TUBERCULOSIS
185

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