Table of Contents
THE SILLIMAN FOUNDATION
PREFACE
CHAPTER I — ORIGIN OF MEDICINE
INTRODUCTION
ORIGIN OF MEDICINE
EGYPTIAN MEDICINE
ASSYRIAN AND BABYLONIAN MEDICINE
HEBREW MEDICINE
CHINESE AND JAPANESE MEDICINE
CHAPTER II — GREEK MEDICINE
ASKLEPIOS
HIPPOCRATES AND THE HIPPOCRATIC WRITINGS
ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOL
GALEN
CHAPTER III — MEDIAEVAL MEDICINE
SOUTH ITALIAN SCHOOL
BYZANTINE MEDICINE
ARABIAN MEDICINE
THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES
MEDIAEVAL MEDICAL STUDIES
MEDIAEVAL PRACTICE
ASTROLOGY AND DIVINATION
CHAPTER IV — THE RENAISSANCE AND THE RISE OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
PARACELSUS
VESALIUS
HARVEY
CHAPTER V — THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN MEDICINE
INTERNAL SECRETIONS
CHEMISTRY
CHAPTER VI — THE RISE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
SANITATION
TUBERCULOSIS
