Sabatier, 214 Sacred period, 012 Salernum, school of, 072 Sandifort, 219 Sands, Henry B., 293 Sanson, 269 Santoro, 171 Santoro's thermometer, 171 Sauvage, 196 Saviard, 177 Scalpel, first use of, in dissecting, 112 Scarpa, 162, 215 Schaf hausen, 183 Schneider, 162, 184 School of rational medicine, 254 Scientific societies and journals, origin of, 151 Scultetus, 180 Seminalism, 259 Serapion, 060 Servetus, Michael, 112, 155 Severino, 119, 176 Shoeffer, 100 Shot wounds, the new teaching of Paré concerning, 132 Siegemundin, Justine, 182 Sigmund, 253 Simpson, Sir James Y., 274 Sims, J. Marion, 296 Skoda, 251 Smellie, William, 220 Smellie's modification of the obstetrical forceps, 166 Smith, Nathan R., 292 Societies and academies, foundation of, 235 Soemmering, 162, 222 Sol id ism, 198 Spontaneous generation of life disproven, 321 St. Come, College of, 92, 122 Stahl, 195 Stahl's pietistic system, 195 Steno, Nicholas, 159 Steno's duct, 159 Stethoscope, 262 Stimolo and contrastimolo, 240 Stoerck, 200 Stokes, William, 248 Stoll, 200 Student-life during the 15th and 16th centuries, 148 Surgery, achievements of, 263 reasons for neglect of, 120 Swammerdam, 153, 183 Sydenham, 152, 165, 173 Sylvius, 167 Syme, James, 274 Syphilis, wide-spread outbreak of, 136 Teeth, substitutes for human, 335 Telescope, invention of the, 099 Tenon, 215 Thaer, 199 Themison, 011 Theory of excitement, 210 Theosophy, 111 Thermometer, discovery of the, 171 Thoth, 002 Tourniquet, invention of, 176 Tourniquet, screw, invention of, 213 Transfusion of blood in man, the first, 176 Travers, Benjamin, 248, 273 Treatment of the insane, improvement in, 228 Troja, 228 Trotula, 079 Trousseau, 247 Türck, 253 Tyrrel, 273 Universities and royal scientific societies, 192 Vaccination, compulsory, 228 in the United States, the first, 279 the first, 227 Vagadasastir, 004 Valsalva, 176 Van Buren, William H., 289 Van Helmont, 168 Van Helmont's svstem of medicine, 168 Van Siebold, 216 Van Swieten, 168 Van Swieten and the Old Vienna School, 199 Velpeau, 270 Venesection, first account of, 010 revival of, 118 Verulam, Lord, 153 Vesalius, Andreas, 104 Vicq d'Azvr, 162, 164, 223 Vidal, 269 Vieussens, 162, 186 Virchow, Rudolph, 255 Vitalism, 201 modern, 255