A History of Medicine

Arturo Castiglioni

1. Medical Thought in its Historical Evolution 2. The Origin of Medicine in Prehistory and in Primitive Peoples. Empiric, Demonistic, Animistic, Magic Medicine 3. Mesopotamian Medicine. Magic and Priestly Medicine 4. Old Egyptian Medicine. Priestly Medicine, Origins of the Philosophic Concept 5. The Medicine of the People of Israel. Theurgic Medicine. Canonical Codifications of Sanitary Laws 6. The Medicine of Ancient Persia and India. Systematic Theories 7. Far Eastern Medicine. Systems of Scholastic Medicine 8. The Medicine of Ancient Greece. The Temples and Cult of Aesculapius – The Greco-Italian Schools – The Dawn of Scientific Medicine 9. The Golden Age of Greek Medicine. Hippocratic Medicine – A Biologic and Synthetic Concept 10. Post-Hippocratic Medicine. The Alexandrian School. Beginnings of Anatomical and Physiological Studies 11. Roman Medicine. The Latin Concept of Medicine and Sanitary Legislation 12. The Decadence of Medical Science. Christian Dogmatic Medicine. The Byzantine School 13. Arabian Medicine. Lay Medicine. Renaissance of Classical Doctrines 14. Medicine in the Christian West During the First Centuries of the Middle Ages. From Monastic Medicine to the Lay Medicine of Salerno 15. Medicine in the Later Middle Ages. The Universities and Humanism. The Precursors of the Renaissance 16. Renaissance. The Revival of Anatomy and Physiology. Biological and Clinical Trends 17. The Seventeenth Century. Dawn of Scientific Liberty. Biological and Experimental Trends in Medicine 18. The Eighteenth Century. From Speculative Systems to Pathological and Clinical Concepts 19. First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Experimental and Biological Concepts. The Cell Doctrine 20. The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century. Clinical Medicine Based on the Fundamental Sciences. Growth of the Specialities 21. The Twentieth Century Bibliography Index of Subjects Index of Persons