History of Medicine: Study of Indian, Arabian, Egyptian, Greek Medicine: From the Time of the Pharaohs to the End of the 18th Century
Cumston, Charles Greene
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Book ID : 2226
ISBN-10 : 81-212-0673-1 / 8121206731
ISBN-13 : 978-81-212-0673-0 / 9788121206730
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
1999
Edition : (Reprint)
Language : English
With a foreword by Andrew Lang; xxxii, 390p., Plts., Index, 23 cm. (First published in London in 1926)
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- 1. The Evolution of Medicine 2. Egyptian Medicine 3. Hindu Medicine Chaldean and Persian Medicine 4. The Philosophers 5. The Hippocratic Oath 6. Hippocrates, and the Hippocratic Collection 7. The Direct Successors of Hippocrates. The School of Alexandria. Erasistratus and Herophilus 8. The School of Empirics. Asclepiades: His Medical System 9. The Methodic Sect. Themison and Thessalus. The Pneumatic Sect. The Eclectics and Compilers 10. Soranus. Caelius Aurelianus and his De Morbis Acutis et Chronicis Libri VIII 11. Galen 12. The Practice of Medicine at Rome 13. Islamic Medicine 14. The Medical Schools of Salerno and Montpellier the Arabists 15. Medicine in the XVIth Century 16. Physiology, Anatomy, Pathology, Nosology, Therapeutics, and Surgery in the XVIth Century 17. The Principal Doctrines Governing Medicine in the XVIIth Century 18. The Anatomy, Physiology, Pathology, Nosography and Therapeutics of the XVIIth Century 19. The Principal Medical Doctrines of the XVIIIth Century 20. The Doctrine of Irritability. The Brunonian Theory and Naturalism 21. Organicism and Vitalism Concluding Chapter: A Brief Survey of the Evolution of Therapeutics
DESCRIPTION
The science of Medicine has come a long way through the ages. This unique book covers the journey of the evolution and development of the Science of Medicine since Egyptian, Greek and Roman eras to Islamic and Arabian period. It covers the ancient Indian medical system of Ayurveda also. The author brings his research in a smooth manner to the later medieval period.
