An Introduction to the History of Medicine, with Medical Chronology, Suggestions for Study and Bibliographic Data

996 pp. CONTENTS: The Identity of All Forms of Ancient and Primitive Medicine; Prehistoric Phases; Egyptian Medicine; Sumerian and Oriental Medicine; Greek Medicine: Before Hippocrates - The Classical Period (460-136 B.C.) - The Graeco-Roman Period (156 B.C.-576 A.D.); The Byzantine Period (476-732 A.D.); The Mohammedan and Jewish Periods (732-1096 A.D.): Cultural Aspects of Mohammedan Medicine; The Medieval Period (1096-1438): Cultural and Social Aspects of Medieval Medicine); The Period of the Renaissance, the Revival of Learning, and the Reformation (1453-1600): Cultural and Social Aspects of Renaissance Medicine; The Seventeenth Century: The Age of Individual Scientific Endeavor: Cultural and Social Aspects of Seventeenth Century Medicine; The Eighteenth Century: The Age of Theories and Systems: Cultural and Social Aspects of Eighteenth Century Medicine; The Nineteenth Century: The Beginnings of Organized Advancement of Science; The Twentieth Century: The Beginnings of Organized Preventive Medicine: Cultural and Social Aspects of Modern Medicine; Medicine in the World War and After; Appendices: Chronology of Medicine and Public Hygiene - Hints on the Study of Medical History - Bibliographic Notes for Collateral Reading: Histories of Medicine, Medical Biography, Histories of Special Subjects - Questions and Exercises; Index of Personal Names; Index of Subjects.