xxviii, 1013, xl pp. CONTENTS: Medical Thought in Its Historical Evolution; The Origin of Medicine in Prehistory and in Primitive Poeples. Empiric, Demonistic, Animistic, Magic Medicine; Mesopotamian Medicine. Magic and Priestly Medicine; Old Egyptian Medicine. Priestly Medicine, Origins of the Philosophic Concept; The Medicine of the People of Israel. Theurgic Medicine. Canonical Codifications of Sanitary Laws; The Medicine of Ancient Persia and India. Systematic Theories; Far Eastern Medicine. Systems of Scholastic Medicine; The Medicine of Ancient Greece. The Temples and Cult of Aesculapius--The Greco-Italian Schools--The Dawn of Scientific Medicine; The Golden Age of Greek Medicine. Hippocratic Medicine--A Biologic and Synthetic Concept. Post-Hippocratic Medicine. The Alexandrian School. Beginnings of Anatomical and Physiological Studies; Roman Medicine. The Latin Concept of Medicine and Sanitary Legislation; The Decadence of Medical Science. Christian Dogmatic Medicine. The Byzantine School; Arabian Medicine. Lay Medicine. Renaissance of Classic Doctrines; Medicine in the Christian West during the First Centuries of the Middle Ages. From Monastic Medicine to the Lay Medicine of Salerno; Medicine in the Later Middle Ages. The Universities and Humanism. The Precursors of the Renaissance; The Renaissance. The Revival of Anatomy and Physiology, Biological and Clinical Trends; The Seventeenth Century. Dawn of Scientific Liberty, Biological and Experimental Trends in Medicine; The Eighteenth Century. From Speculative Systems to Pathological and Clinical Concepts; First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Experimental and Biological Concepts. The Cell Doctrine; The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century and the Twentieth Century. Clinical Medicine Based on the Fundamental Sciences. Growth of the Specialties. Neo-Hippocratism; The Rise of Universities and of Faculties of Medicine; Bibliography; Index of Subjects; Index of Personal Names.
