Sixty centuries of health and physick. The progress of ideas from primitive magic to modern medicine - by S G Blaxland Stubbs; E W Bligh.
Publisher:
London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. [1931]
First edition.
| Description: | xvi, 253 pages : with 64 B/W plates and colored frontispiece. |
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| Contents: | Primitive notions of health and disease -- Achievements and superstitions of Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians -- Ancient Egypt: promise limited by magic -- Beginnings of western science: Cretan hygiene and Greek medical schools -- Greece: Hippocrates, father of all medicine -- Inheritors of Hippocrates: Alexandria and Rome to A.D. 200 -- Thousand years of darkness: Europe A.D. 200 to 1200 -- Dry bones stir and learning awakes: A.D. 1200 to 1450 -- Foundation of the modern period of medicine: A.D. 1450 to 1600 -- Enemies of man: plague and epidemic -- Science in the seventeenth century: the Royal Society, Sanctorius and Harvey -- New schools of thought: chemistry and mathematics in medicine -- Microscope and the discovery of germs -- Basis of modern pneumo-therapy: first researches in breathing -- Thomas Sydenham, the master of clinical medicine -- Eighteenth century, an era of hygiene -- eighteenth century influences on modern medicine -- Inoculation and the beginnings of immunisation -- Growth of hospitals and the "sanitary idea" -- Notes on the epoch of modern medicine. |
| Responsibility: | by S.G. Blaxland Stubbs and E.W. Bligh ; with an introd. by Sir Humphry Rolleston. |