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The Doctor in History
by Howard W. Haggard
Dorset Press, New York, 1989, 406pp, HC
[Europe, Mediterranean, BC-16C; also Western 17-19C]
- Chapters
- Part I
- An Unknown Hero of Medicine
- Spirits, Demons, Ghosts, and Witches
- Theories and Facts
- Part II
- Imhotep, the God
- Æsculpaius, the Myth
- Hippocrates, the Name
- Part III
- The Path of Medicine
- The Bearers of Knowledge
- The Way Divides -- East and West
- Part IV
- Disease and Conquest
- Science under the Caliphs
- Medicine Follows the Crusades
- Part V
- Town and Gown
- The Black Death
- The Mental Contagions
- Part VI
- Paracelsus, the Critic
- Vesalius, the Observer
- Paré, the Experimenter
- Part VII
- The Science of Medicine
- The Superstitions of Medicine
- The Practice of Medicine
- Part VIII
- European Medicine Comes to America
- A Century in America
- Doctors in Laces and Frills
- Part IX
- Medicine at the Bedside
- In the Operating Room
- In Barracks and Prisons
- Part X
- The Laboratory
- The Frontiers of Disease
- The Goal
Illustrations
- A bison painted on the wall of a cave painted by a pre-historic artist
- The Cro-Magnon medicine man dressed in his ceremonial costume
- Medicine man of the Blackfoot Indians dress in his professional costume
- A medicine man of an African tribe driving away evil spirits
- Humans changed to beasts by black magic
- Black magic with wax images
- A saint delivering a princess from a demon
- Rameses II and his chariot
- Facsimile of a portion of the Ebers papyrus
- Egyptian god modeling a man
- Prometheus carving out man's skeleton
- Æsculapius
- Hippocrates as shown in the surgical works of Ambroise Paré
- Site of the Roman Temple of Æsculapius
- A rhizotomist
- The legend of the mandrake
- A man from the country of one-footed people
- A man from the country of snake eaters
- A man from the country of headless people
- Gladiators training
- Galen as shown in the surgical works of Ambroise Paré
- An illustration from one of the translations of DIoscorides
- Map of the Roman Empire
- The planets that caused the plague
- Astrological influence
- The medieval way of wrapping a baby
- Pope Urban preaching the Crusades
- A Hospitaler
- Constantine of Africa
- Scene at the medical school of Salerno
- A domestic scene in the Middle Ages -- removing head lice
- A medieval professor of medicine
- Medieval picture of the skeleton
- Legal torture
- St. Anthony and the victims of the "fire"
- St. Roch treating plague sores
- The Black Death
- A bill of mortality during the epidemic of bubonic plague in England, 1665
- Gilles de Rais
- The Dancing Mania
- Music for the tarantella
- Killing tranatulas with music
- Illustration from a calendar printed in 1493
- Paracelsus
- The newvous system as shown in a medieval manuscript
- Andreas Vesalius
- Title-page of the Anatomy of Mundinus
- The skeleton according to Galen's description
- Ambroise Paré
- Scene in the Hôtel Dieu
- Setting a broken leg on the battle field
- Making theriac
- The legend of the bezoar stone
- A bezoar stone and the animal from which it really came
- A variety of unicorns
- Sanctorius
- The thermometer of Sanctorius
- Santorius on the steelyard
- William Harvey
- Title-page of De Motu Cordis
- An illustratin from De Motu Cordis
- A broadside printed in 1697 showing King Charles touching for the evil
- Sir Kenelm Digby who used the powder of sympathy
- Palmistry
- Horoscopes
- Horoscope in geometrical form
- Diagnosis of disease from the stars
- Sydenham
- Matthew Hopkins, the famous "witch-finder"
- An advertisement of an "inoculation farm"
- Title-page of Dr. Morgan's Vindication
- A testimonial for Perkins' tractors
- A mountebank dentist
- The "Undertaker's Arms"
- Stephen Hales' windmill ventilator on Newgate Prison
- Edward Jenner
- Title-page of Jenner's announcement of vaccination
- An anti-vaccination caricature published in 1800 intended to discourage the use of vaccination
- Signatures of Indian chiefs on the tribute to Jenner
- A caricature of a superstition of the nineteenth century -- phrenology
- René Laënnec
- Laënnec using the stethoscope
- An early cartoon of Toentgen's discovery of the X-ray published in Life
- William Beaumont
- A caricature of eighteenth-century surgery
- Colton's announcement in the Hartford Courant, December 10, 1844
- Casting the demons into the swine
- Driving out a demon
- Exorcising an insane man
- Burning a witch
- Insane girl in prison
- Hogarth's picture of Bedlam
- Dorothea Lynde Dix
- A caricature of Pasteur
- Caricature of Dr. Koch "cultering" bacteria