The Dawn of Modern Medicine: An Account of the Revival of the Science and Art of Medicine Which Took Place in Western Europe During the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century and the First Part of the NineteenthBuck, Albert H. (Albert Henry)
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The Dawn of Modern Medicine: An Account of the Revival of the Science and Art of Medicine Which Took Place in Western Europe During the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century and the First Part of the Nineteenth
Buck, Albert H. (Albert Henry)
Medicine -- Europe -- History; Medicine -- History -- 18th century; Medicine -- History -- 19th century; Physicians -- Europe -- Biography
Chapter XV. English Leaders in Medicine and 139
Surgery (Second Group)
Chapter XVI. English Leaders in Medicine and 150
Surgery (Second Group continued)
BOOK VIII
MEDICINE IN FRANCE
Chapter XVII. Bordeu and Bichat; The Beginning of 159
Experimental Physiology and Experimental
Pathology in France
BOOK IX
MEDICINE AT THE HEIGHT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Chapter XVIII. Types of French Physicians who 171
Flourished about the Time of the Reign of Terror
Chapter XIX. Laënnec and the Invention of the 195
Modern Method of Auscultation; Paul-Joseph
Barthez
Chapter XX. Early Studies of the Disease now 202
Universally called Typhoid Fever: Bretonneau
BOOK X
BROUSSAIS AND BROUSSAISM
Chapter XXI. The Harmful Effects of Broussais’ 207
Teaching
BOOK XI
THE GOLDEN AGE OF SURGERY IN FRANCE
Chapter XXII. J. L. Petit, of Paris, and his 215
Contemporaries in Surgery—Sabatier, Chopart,
Desault and Dupuytren
Chapter XXIII. Workers in Special Departments of 230
Surgery: Demours, Descemet, Delpech, Fauchard,
Jourdain, Gariot
BOOK XII
DESGENETTES AND LARREY, FRANCE’S MOST CELEBRATED MILITARY SURGEONS
Chapter XXIV. Military Surgery in France, as 241
represented by Desgenettes and Baron Larrey
BOOK XIII
A FEW OF THE IMPORTANT HOSPITALS AND THE PRINCIPAL ORGANIZATIONS IN
PARIS FOR TEACHING MEDICINE AND MIDWIFERY
Chapter XXV. Hospital of “La Maternité,” the Great 253
French Midwifery School
Chapter XXVI. Further Details Concerning the Paris 258
Faculté de Médecine and Concerning some of the
Larger Hospitals of Paris
Chapter XXVII. Armand Trousseau, one of the last 265
of France’s Great Clinical Teachers
List of the More Important Authorities Consulted 271
General Index 277
Footnotes 300
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, the French Frontispiece
chemist and biologist who contributed more than
anyone else to our knowledge of the chemistry
and physiology of oxygen. (Copied from the
frontispiece of Volume I of Lavoisier’s “Works,”
published by the French Government in 1864.)
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