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Chapter XIV. Well-known Medical Authors of the Early
Centuries of the Christian Era 151

Chapter XV. Claudius Galen 160

Chapter XVI. The Influence of Christianity upon the
Evolution of Medicine 179


PART II. MEDIAEVAL MEDICINE

Chapter XVII. The Condition of Medicine at Byzantium
during the Early Part of the Middle Ages 191

Chapter XVIII. Beginning of the Arab Renaissance under
the Caliphs of Bagdad 203

Chapter XIX. Further Advance of the Arab Renaissance
during the Ninth and Succeeding Centuries of the
Christian Era 212

Chapter XX. Hospitals and Monasteries in the Middle
Ages 235

Chapter XXI. Medical Instruction at Salerno, Italy, in
the Middle Ages 243

Chapter XXII. Early Evidences of the Influence of the
Renaissance upon the Progress of Medicine in Western
Europe 259

Chapter XXIII. Further Progress of Medicine and Surgery
in Western Europe during the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth and a Part of the Fifteenth Centuries 269

Chapter XXIV. During the Latter Half of the Middle
Ages Surgery Assumes the Most Prominent Place
in the Advance of Medical Science 292

Chapter XXV. Brief History of the Allied Sciences—Pharmacy,
Chemistry and Balneotherapeutics 315


PART III. MEDICINE DURING THE RENAISSANCE

Chapter XXVI. Important Events that Preceded the
Renaissance—Early Attempts to Dissect the Human
Body 327