PART I. ANCIENT MEDICINE
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Preface ix
Chapter I. Development of the Science and Art of
Medicine 3
Chapter II. Oriental Medicine 11
Chapter III. Oriental Medicine (continued) 25
Chapter IV. Greek Medicine at the Dawn of History 46
Chapter V. The Significance of the Serpent in the
Statues and Votive Offerings Exposed to View in
the Aesculapian Temples 62
Chapter VI. The Beginnings of a Rational System of
Medicine in Greece 67
Chapter VII. Hippocrates the Great 81
Chapter VIII. Brief Extracts from Some of the Hippocratic
Writings 89
Chapter IX. The State of Greek Medicine after the
Events of the Peloponnesian War; the Founding of
Alexandria in Egypt, at the Mouth of the Nile; and
the Development of Different Sects in Medicine 96
Chapter X. Erasistratus and Herophilus, the Two Great
Leaders in Medicine at Alexandria; the Founding
of New Sects 104
Chapter XI. Asclepiades, the Introducer of Greek Medicine
into Rome 116
Chapter XII. The State of Medicine at Rome after the
Death of Asclepiades; the Founding of the School
of the Methodists 129
Chapter XIII. The Further History of Methodism at
Rome, and the Development of Two New Sects, viz.,
the Pneumatists and the Eclectics.—A General Survey
of the Subject of Sects in Medicine 138
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