Title: Outlines of the ancient history of medicine ; being a view of the progress of the healing art among the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Arabians
Description: Sect. 1. 1. Supposed origin of medicne, mythological fictions -- 2. Mytholoigcal era of medicine continued: Practice among the Ancient Greeks, Esculapius, the Asclepiades -- 3. Mythlogical era continued: The Asclepiades, schools of Rhodes, Cos, Cnidos, and Italy -- 4. Pythagoras, Empedocles, Almæon, Acron, Herodicus, Heraclitus, Democritus -- 5. General observationss on the state of medicine anterior to the appearance of Hippocrates -- Sect. 2. 1. Life and times of Hippocrates, his philosophical doctrines, and medical writings -- 2. The Dogmatists and successors of Hippocrates; the schools of Cnidos and Italy; Plato, Diocles, Chrysippus of Solis, Praxagoras -- 3. Of Aristotle and the Peripatetic School -- 4. Herophilus, Erasistratus, and the Medical School of Alexandria -- 5. Asclepiades, Themison, Soranus, Cælius, Aurelianus, and the Methodic School -- 6. Pneumatics and eclectics, A.C. Celsus, Aretæus, and others -- 7. Rufus, Pedacius Dioscorides, the Elder, Pliny, and others -- 8. On the life and writings of Claudius Galen -- 9. Decline of medicine, the Cabbalists, Oribasius and Numesius -- 10. Theophilus, Paulus Ægineta, Actuarius, Myrepsus, and extinction of the Greek School -- Sect. 3. 1. Origin and progress of medical science in Arabia; Mesue, Honain, Serapion, Alkhendi, and Rhazes -- 2. Introduction of chemistry into medicine, Haly-Abbas -- 3. Life and writings of Avicenna -- 4. Separion the Younger, Mesue the Younger, and Albucasis -- 5. Avenzoar, Averrhoes, and extinction of the Arabian School.
Subjects: Medicine, History, Ancient Medicine, Ancient History, Egyptian Medicine, Greek and Roman Medicine, Arab Medicine
Time periods: To 1500