Part 44

Arsenic, 331

Asclepiades of Bithynia (d. c. 40 B.C.), 41-2

Aseptic Surgery, 235, 237-43

Asklepios, see Aesculapius

Aspirin, 327

Assyria, 6; Medical Tablets in, 322

Astigmatism (Irregular Sight), 317-19

Astrology, 54

Astronomy, 103-5, 122, 135-6

Atomic Structure, 37, 126

Atropine, 326

Auenbrugger, Leopold (1722-1809), 160

Augustus, Emperor (reigned 27 B.C.-A.D. 14), 42

Aural Surgery, 188

Avicenna, the Persian (980-1036), 67, 70, 72, 74, 82, 180

Avignon, 76

Babylonians, the, 6-7

Bacon, Roger (1214-84), 318

Bacteria, 120, 121, 227

Bacteriology, 249-53

Bacteriolysins, 269

Baer, Karl Ernst von (1792-1876), 204

Bagdad, 66

Baillie, Matthew (1761-1823), 158

Balfour, Francis Maitland (1851-82), 204

Bayer, 205, 332

Beaumont, William (1785-1853), 148

Bedlam, 286