Greek medicine in Rome
Subtitle: The Fitzpatrick lectures on the history of medicine delivered at the Royal college of physicians of London in 1909-1910, with other historical essays.
By: By the Right Hon. Sir T. Clifford Allbutt ...
Publisher: Macmillan and co., limited
Published: 1921
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 633
Subjects: Medicine, Greek and Roman; Medicine
Other titles: Fitzpatrick lectures.
Description: Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge, Allbutt was a great literary stylist. He has been described by Underwood as the most learned and distinguished physician of the last hundred years.
Notes: Bibliographical foot-notes.
Table of contents: title: [I] The Fitzpatrick lectures.; title: [II] Byzantine medicine.; title: [III] Salerno.; title: [IV] Public medical service and the growth of hospitals.; title: [V] A chair of medicine in the fifteenth century.; title: [VI] The rise of the experimental method in Oxford.; title: [VII] Medicine in 1800.; title: [VIII] Medicine in the twentieth century.; title: [IX] Palissy, Bacon, and the revival of natural science.