The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art by Edward Berdoe

BOOK III.

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_GREEK MEDICINE._ I. THE MEDICINE OF THE GREEKS BEFORE THE TIME OF HIPPOCRATES 147 Apollo, the God of Medicine.—Cheiron.—Æsculapius.—Artemis.—Dionysus. —Ammon.—Hermes.—Prometheus.—Melampus.—Medicine of Homer.—Temples of Æsculapius.—The Early Ionic Philosophers.—Empedocles.—School of Crotona.—The Pythagoreans.—Grecian Theory of Diseases.—School of Cos.—The Asclepiads.—The Aliptæ. II. THE MEDICINE OF HIPPOCRATES AND HIS PERIOD 172 Hippocrates first delivered Medicine from the Thraldom of Superstition.—Dissection of the Human Body and Rise of Anatomy.—Hippocrates, Father of Medicine and Surgery.—The Law.—Plato. 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.

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1. Chapter 1 2. BOOK I. 3. BOOK II. 4. BOOK III. 5. BOOK IV. 6. BOOK V. 7. BOOK VI. 8. BOOK I. 9. CHAPTER I. 10. CHAPTER II. 11. CHAPTER III. 12. CHAPTER IV. 13. CHAPTER V. 14. CHAPTER VI. 15. CHAPTER VII. 16. CHAPTER VIII. 17. BOOK II. 18. CHAPTER I. 19. CHAPTER II. 20. 5. _Disease of the liver_. 6. _Hypochondria_. 7. _Hysteria_. 8. 21. 12. _Fevers_ in general (Matt. viii. 14, etc.). 13. _Pestilence_ 22. 23. _Cancer_ (2 Tim. ii. 17). 24. _Worms_; may have been phthiriasis 23. 28. _Lethargy_ (Gen. ii. 21; 1 Sam. xxvi. 12). 29. _Paralysis_, palsy 24. CHAPTER III. 25. 29. For the spell the invocation of heaven may he repeat the invocation 26. 38. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, 27. 48. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, 28. 58. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, 29. 68. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, 30. 78. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, 31. 88. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing, 32. 92. may it drive out the spell and I shall be free. 33. CHAPTER IV. 34. 6. The Vedānta, by Bādarāyana or Vyāsa. 35. CHAPTER V. 36. CHAPTER VI. 37. BOOK III. 38. CHAPTER I. 39. CHAPTER II. 40. 1. Medicine is of all the arts the most noble; but owing to the 41. 2. Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought 42. 3. Instruction in medicine is like the culture of the productions of 43. 4. Having brought all these requisites to the study of medicine, and 44. 5. Those things which are sacred are to be imparted only to sacred 45. CHAPTER III. 46. CHAPTER IV. 47. 17. Celsus, _De Medicina Libri Octo_, of which the fifth treats of 48. 22. Marcellus Empiricus, _De Medicamentis Empiricis, Physicis, ac 49. CHAPTER V. 50. CHAPTER VI. 51. 2. The _Magical_, with extraordinary figures, superstitious words, 52. BOOK IV. 53. CHAPTER I. 54. 900. The sources of the information he ascribes to Oxa, Dun, and 55. 2. He is to have his land free: his horse in attendance: and his linen 56. 3. His seat in the hall within the palace is at the base of the pillar 57. 5. His protection is, from the time the king shall command him to visit 58. 6. He is to administer medicine gratuitously to all within the palace, 59. 7. The mediciner is to have, when he shall apply a tent, twenty-four 60. 14. The mediciner is to take an indemnification from the kindred of the 61. 18. His worth is six score and six kine, to be augmented.” 62. CHAPTER II. 63. CHAPTER III. 64. 529. The religious houses of this order, of which Monte Cassino was the 65. CHAPTER IV. 66. CHAPTER V. 67. CHAPTER VI. 68. CHAPTER VII. 69. 1325. Though he had a penetrating faculty of observation, he was not 70. CHAPTER VIII. 71. CHAPTER IX. 72. BOOK V. 73. CHAPTER I. 74. 1518. The king was moved to this by the example of similar institutions 75. CHAPTER II. 76. CHAPTER III. 77. CHAPTER IV. 78. CHAPTER V. 79. CHAPTER VI. 80. CHAPTER VII. 81. 1774. The greatest teacher of surgery in Germany, A. G. Richter, gave 82. 1734. He was the author of several medical treatises, one of which 83. BOOK VI. 84. CHAPTER I. 85. CHAPTER II. 86. CHAPTER III. 87. introduction of wholly new and startling ideas. 88. 1608. BICHLORIDE OF MERCURY, or CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE, is the _ruskapoor_ 89. 337. Boniveh, _Tasmanians_, pp. 183, 195.

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