THE GROWTH OF MEDICINE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO ABOUT 1800 PUBLISHED ON THE FOUNDATION ESTABLISHED IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM CHAUNCEY WILLIAMS OF THE CLASS OF 1822, YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL AND OF WILLIAM COOK WILLIAMS OF THE CLASS OF 1850, YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL THE GROWTH OF MEDICINE FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO ABOUT 1800 BY ALBERT H. BUCK, B.A., M.D. _Formerly Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Ear, Columbia University, New York--Consulting Aural Surgeon, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary; etc._ [Illustration] NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS MDCCCCXVII COPYRIGHT, 1917 BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS First published, February, 1917 THE WILLIAMS MEMORIAL PUBLICATION FUND The present volume is the first work published by the Yale University Press on the Williams Memorial Publication Fund. This Foundation was established June 15, 1916, by a gift made to Yale University by Dr. George C. F. Williams, of Hartford, a member of the Class of 1878, Yale School of Medicine, where three generations of his family studied--his father, William Cook Williams, in the Class of 1850, and his grandfather, William Chauncey Williams, in the Class of 1822. PREFACE