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A Short History of Medicine
by Erwin H. Ackerknecht
The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1982, 277pp, PB
[Europe, Asia, BC-16C; also World 17-20C]
Chapters
- Paleopathology and Paleomedicine
- Primitive Medicine
- Medicine of Ancient Civilazations
- Ancient India and China
- Greek Medicine: Physicians, Priests, Philosophers
- Greek Medicine: Hippocratic Medicine
- Greek Medicine: Alexandria and Rome
- Medieval Medicine
- Renaissance Medicine
- Medicine in the Seventeenth Century
- Medicine in the Eighteenth Century
- The Clinical Schools of the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
- The Basic Sciencs During the Nineteenth Century
- Clinical Medicine of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
- Microbiology
- Surgery and Gynecology in the Nineteenth Century
- The New Specialism of the Nineteenth Century
- Public Health and Professional Developments in the Nineteenth Century
- Medicine in the United States Prior to 1900
- Epilogue: Trends in Twentieth-Century Medicine
- Nobel Laureates in Medicine and Physiolgy, 1901-1981
- Suggestions for Further Reading
Illustrations
- Trephined neolithic skull
- Imhotep, the Egyptian god of medicine
- Greek physician palpating
- Medieval doctor examing urine
- Medieval anatomy lessons
- Girolamo Fracastoro
- Andreas Vesalius
- Paracelsus
- Leeuwenhoek's microscope and one of his designs
- Illustration from harvey's De Motu Cordis
- Lavoisier experimenting of respiration
- Caricature of Broussais
- Caricature of cowpox vaccination
- René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec
- Virchow and Keolliker in Wuerzberg, 1850
- Claude Bernard surround by his pupils
- Louis Pasteur
- Robert Koch
- Lord Lister
- Jean Martin Charcot
- Paul Ehrlich and Hata
- Benjimin Rush
- Sigmund Freud at Clark University, 1909