Part 2

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xix-xxiv

I. ANCIENT GREECE, to about 300 B.C.

§ 1. Origins of Greek Medicine 1

§ 2. The Hippocratic Physician 13

§ 3. Hippocratic Practice 18

§ 4. Aristotle 27

II. THE HEIRS OF GREECE, from about 300 B.C. to about A.D. 200

§ 1. The Alexandrian School 36

§ 2. Medical Teaching in the Roman Empire 41

§ 3. Medical Services of the Roman Empire 45

§ 4. Roman Hospitals 48

§ 5. Galen 50

§ 6. The Final Medical Synthesis of Antiquity 53

III. THE MIDDLE AGES, from about A.D. 200 to about A.D. 1500

§ 1. The Period of Depression in Europe 61

§ 2. Arabic Medicine 66

§ 3. The Medieval Awakening 68

§ 4. The Universities 70

§ 5. Medieval Anatomy, Surgery, and Internal Medicine 72

§ 6. Medieval Hospitals and Hygiene 77

IV. THE REBIRTH OF SCIENCE, from about 1500 to about 1700.

§ 1. The Anatomical Awakening 82

§ 2. The Anatomical Reaction on Surgery 92

§ 3. The Renaissance of Internal Medicine 95

§ 4. The First Physical Synthesis 102

§ 5. The Revival of Physiology 108

§ 6. Microscopic Analysis of the Animal Body 115

§ 7. From Alchemy to Chemistry 122