The Origins of Modern Western Medicine
Subtitle:  J.B. Van Helmont to Claude Bernard
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: September 28, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 812
ISBN-13: 9781556433719
Subjects: History of medicine; Medical; Medical / Nursing; History; Medical / History
First sentence: When Paracelsus created modern medicine by proposing a substitute for the Galenism of the schools, he sought inspiration in the Hippocratic Corpus and probably in Celsus.