The Growth of Medicine from the Earliest Times to about 1800

Buck breaks the history of Medicine into three parts including Ancient Medicine, Mediaeval Medicine and Medicine During the Renaissance. Partial Contents: Development of the Science and Art of Medicine; Oriental Medicine; Hippocrates the Great; Hospitals and Monasteries in the Middle Ages; Brief History of the Allied Sciences-Pharmacy, Chemistry and Balneotherapeutics; The Founders of Human Anatomy and Physiology; Chemistry and Experimental Pharmacology; Surgery in Germany and Switzerland during the fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; and Surgery in Great Britain during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.