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Distinguished men and women of science, medicine and the arts |
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Distinguished men and women of science, medicine and the arts Hamilton's History of medicine and surgery |
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Distinguished men and women of science, medicine and the arts.
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Includes index. |
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Print version record. |
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HAMILTON'S HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; Contents; Editors' Preface; Sir William Hamilton's Original Preface; About the Editors; Chapter 1: History of Medicine from the Creation to the Birth of Hippocrates; Tracing the Dawn of Medical Science; Conjectures of Schulze and Others Concerning Medicine in Ancient Times; Circumcision, The First Surgical Operation on Record; Medicine among the Ancient Egyptians; Medicine among the Ancient Jews; Medicine in Ancient Hindustan; Medicine in Ancient China; Inoculation for Smallpox in China. |
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Judicial Medicine and the Chinese Materia MedicaProgress of Medicine among the Greeks; Chiron; Asclepius; Pythagoras, Alcmaeon, and Empedocles; Commencement of the Practice of Medicine as a Distinct Profession; Democetes and Acron; The Gymnastic Schools of Medicine; Chapter 2: Reformation of Medicine by Hippocrates; The Opinions and Theories of Hippocrates; Democritus of Abdera; The Dogmatic School; Eudoxus, Chrysippus, and Diocles; Praxagoras and Menecrates; Aristotle, Theophrastus, Zeno, and Epicurus; Ptolemy Soter; Herophilus; Erasistratus; Empirics and Dogmatists. |
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Heraclides, Nicander, Damocrates, and Herennius PhiloMedicine among the Romans; Archagathus and Menecrates; Asclepiades; Themison and the Methodic Sect; Thessalus; Soranus and Clius Aurelianus; Heliodorus, Antyllus, and Leonidas; Progress in the Field of Anatomy; Progress in the Field of Botany; Celsus; The Pneumatic and Eclectic Sects; Aretćus; Chapter 3: Galen and His Successors; The Early Genius of Galen; Galen's Admiration of Hippocrates; Galen's Definition of Medicine; Galen's Pathological Doctrines; Galen's Achievements; Galen's Contributions to Anatomy and Physiology; Oribasius. |
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AetiusPalladius the Sophist; Alexander of Trallis; Jacobus Polychrestus, Uranius, and Procopius; Paulus; Stephen of Alexandria; Theophilus; Chapter 4: The Influence of Muslims and Arabs on Medicine after the Capture of Alexandria; The Origin of Smallpox; The Capture of Alexandria; Academia and Scholarship in Alexandria; Aaron and Masarjawaih; Bachtishua; Honain; Caliph Haroun Al-Rashid; Mesue; Caliph Al-Ma'mun; Serapion; Rhazes; Avicenna; Haly Abbas; Abdallatif; Medicine among the Arabs in Spain; Avenzoar; Averrhoes; Albucasis. |
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Chapter 5: Greek Medical Writers from the Tenth to the Fourteenth CenturiesActuarius; Actuarius's Compendium of Medicine; Hydrophobia and Palpitation; Smallpox and Purgatives; Other Works of Actuarius; Nonus; Psellus; Demetrius Pepagomenus; Chapter 6: The Fetters of Corruption and the Progress of Medical Education; Abuse and Corruption of Medical Practice by Religious Authorities; Alcuinus; The School of Salernum; Constantine the African; Robert, Duke of Normandy; Ćgidius; Benjamin; Frederick II; Policies and Decline of the School of Salernum. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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English. |
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Medicine -- History.
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Surgery -- History.
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Anatomy -- History.
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History of Medicine |
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Médecine -- Histoire.
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Chirurgie -- Histoire.
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Anatomie -- Histoire.
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history of medicine.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
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MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Atlases.
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MEDICAL -- Essays.
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MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
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MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
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Anatomy
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Medicine
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Surgery
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History
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| Added Author |
Tubbs, R. Shane, editor.
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| Added Title |
History of medicine and surgery |
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Print version: Hamilton, William, Sir, 1788-1856. Hamilton's History of medicine and surgery 9781629488820 (DLC) 2013048016 (OCoLC)864096006 |
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9781629489087 (electronic bk.) |
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1629489085 (electronic bk.) |
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9781629488820 |
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1629488828 |
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AU@ 000062328297 |
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DEBSZ 472811703 |
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