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xiv, 685 pages ; 24 cm "Every item is worthy of inclusion"--American Journal of Public Health. Original accounts ranging from Ancient Egypt and Greece to discovery of x-rays: Galen, Pasteur, Lavoisier, Harvey, Parkinson, and others." ... a book useful to teacher and student alike. It deserves a place on every historian's reference shelf."--American Historical Review Includes bibliographical references and index The Egyptian papyri -- The cult of Aesculapius (Homer, Herondas, Aristophanes, Plato) -- Hippocrates -- Thucydides -- Aristotle -- The four humours (Empedocles, Hippocrates, Galen) -- Galen -- Aretaeus the Cappadocian -- Celsus -- Dioscorides -- Arabic medicine (Avicenna, Rhazes) -- The Middle Ages (The School of Salerno, John of Gaddesden, Bartholomew Anglicus, Guy de Chauliac, Chaucer) -- Paracelsus -- Fracastorius -- Anatomy (Mondino di Lucci, Leonardo da Vinci, Andreas Vesalius) -- William Harvey -- Obstetrics (Eucharius Roslin, Hugh Chamberlen, Fielding Ould, Carl Siegnumd Franz Crede, John Stearns) -- Ambroise Pare -- Thomas Sydenham -- Marcello Malpighi -- Anton van Leeuwenhoek -- Medical life of the seventeenth century (Moliere) -- Early gross anatomy (Antonio Benivi

Author

Logan Clendening

Publisher

New York: Dover Publications

Published

1960

Language

EN

Subjects

Medical, History, Medicine