An introduction to the history of medicine : with medical chronology, suggestions for study and bibliographic data / by Fielding H. Garrison
1929, Fourth Edition. Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: W. S. C. Copeman. Item #439015
Physical description; 996 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The identity of all forms of ancient and primitive medicine -- Prehistoric phase -- Egyptian medicine -- Sumerian and Oriental medicine -- Greek medicine : before Hippocrates ; the classic period (460-136 B.C.) ; The Græco-Roman period (156 B.C.-576 A.D.) -- The Byzantine period (476-732 A.D.) -- The Mohammedan and Jewish periods (732-1096 A.D.) -- The medieval period (1096-1438) -- The period of the Renaissance, the revival of learning, and the Reformation (1453--1600) -- The seventeenth century : the age of individual scientific endeavor -- The eighteenth century : the age of theories and systems -- The nineteenth century : the beginnings of organized advancement of science -- The twentieth century : the beginnings of organized preventative medicine -- Medicine in the World War and after. Subjects; Medicine History. Medicine ; Bibliography. History of Medicine. Bibliography of Medicine. Physicians biography. Medicine.
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