The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art by Edward Berdoe

BOOK V.

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_THE DAWN OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE._ I. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 345 The Dawn of Modern Science.—The Reformation of Medicine.—Paracelsus. —The Sceptics.—The Protestantism of Science.—Influenza.—Legal Recognition of Medicine in England.—The Barber-Surgeons.—The Sweating Sickness.—Origin of the Royal College of Physicians of London.—“Merry Andrew.”—Origin of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.—Caius.—Low State of Midwifery.—The Great Continental Anatomists.—Vesalius.—Servetus.—Paré.—Influence of the Reformation.—The Rosicrucians.—Touching for the Evil.—Vivisection of Human Beings.—Origin of Legal Medicine. II. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 377 Bacon and the Inductive Method.—Descartes and Physiology.—Newton. —Boyle and the Royal Society.—The Founders of the Schools of Medical Science.—Sydenham, the English Hippocrates.—Harvey and the Rise of Physiology.—The Microscope in Medicine.—Willis and the Reform of Materia Medica. III. SKATOLOGICAL MEDICINE AND THE REFORM OF PHARMACOLOGY 394 Loathsome Medicines.—Sympathetical Cures.—Weapon Salve.—Superstitions. IV. BATHS AND MINERAL WATERS 400 Miraculous Springs.—The Pool of Bethesda.—Herb-baths. V. WITCHCRAFT AND MEDICINE 403 Comparative Witchcraft.—Laws against Sorcery.—Magic in Virgil and Horace.—Demonology.—Images of Wax and Clay.—Transference of Disease.—Witchcraft in the Koran.—White Magic and Black.—Coral and the Evil Eye.—“Overlooking” People.—Exorcism in the Catholic Church. VI. MEDICAL SUPERSTITIONS 413 Death and the Grave.—Sorcerer’s Ointment.—Teeth-worms.—Disease Transference.—Doctrine of Signatures. VII. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 418 The Sciences accessory to Medicine.—The Great Schools of Medical Theory.—Boerhaave and his System.—Stahl.—Hoffman.—Cullen.—Brown. —Hospitals.—Bichat and the New Era of Anatomy.—Mesmer and Mesmerism.—Surgery.—The Anatomists, Physiologists, and Scientists of the Period.—Inoculation and Vaccination.

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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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