The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art: A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and CountriesBerdoe, Edward
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The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art: A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries
Berdoe, Edward
Medicine -- History
III. POST-HIPPOCRATIC GREEK MEDICINE.—THE SCHOOLS OF
MEDICINE 187
The Dogmatic School.—Praxagoras of Cos.-Aristotle.—The
School of Alexandria.—Theophrastus the Botanist.—The great
Anatomists, Erasistratus and Hierophilus, and the Schools they
founded.—The Empiric School.
IV. THE EARLIER ROMAN MEDICINE 205
Disease-goddesses.—School of the Methodists.—Rufus and
Marinus.—Pliny.—Celsus.
V. LATER ROMAN MEDICINE 227
The Eclectic and Pneumatic Sects.—Galen.—Neo-Platonism.—Oribasius
and Ætius.—Influence of Christianity and the Rise of
Hospitals.—Paulus Ægineta.—Ancient Surgical Instruments.
VI. AMULETS AND CHARMS IN MEDICINE 247
Universality of the Amulet.—Scarabs.—Beads.—Savage Amulets.—Gnostic
and Christian Amulets.—Herbs and Animals as
Charms.—Knots.—Precious Stones.—Signatures.—Numbers.—Saliva.
—Talismans.—Scripts.—Characts.—Sacred Names.—Stolen Goods.
BOOK IV.
_CELTIC, TEUTONIC, AND MEDIÆVAL MEDICINE._
I. MEDICINE OF THE DRUIDS, TEUTONS, ANGLO-SAXONS, AND
WELSH 269
Origin of the Druid Religion.—Druid Medicine.—Their Magic.—Teutonic
Medicine.—Gods of Healing.—Elves.—The Elements.—Anglo-Saxon
Leechcraft.—The Leech-book.—Monastic Leechdoms.—Superstitions.—Welsh
Medicine.—The Triads.—Welsh
Druidism.—The Laws of the Court Physicians.—Welsh Medical
Maxims.—Welsh Medical and Surgical Practice and Fees.
II. MOHAMMEDAN MEDICINE 287
Sources of Arabian Learning.—Influence of Greek and Hindu
Literature.—The Nestorians.—Baghdad and its Colleges.—The
Moors in Spain.—The Mosque Schools.—Arabian Inventions and
Services to Literature.—The great Arab Physicians.—Serapion,
Rhazes, Ali Abbas, Avicenna, Albucasis, and Averroes.
III. RISE OF THE MONASTERIES 300
Alchemy the Parent of Chemistry.
IV. RISE OF THE UNIVERSITIES 303
School of Montpellier.—Divorce of Medicine from Surgery.
V. THE SCHOOL OF SALERNO 308
The Monks of Monte Cassino.—Clerical Influence at Salerno.
—Charlemagne.—Arabian Medicine gradually supplanted the Græco-Latin
Science.—Constantine the Carthaginian.—Archimatthæus.—Trotula.—Anatomy
of the Pig.—Pharmacopœias.—The Four Masters.—Roger and
Rolando.—The Emperor Frederick.
VI. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY 319
The Crusades.—Astrology.
VII. THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY 325
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