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Paré, Ambroise (1517-90), 92-4, 162, 247

Paris, 76, 85, 160, 288

Park, W. H. (1863), 266

Pasteur, Louis (1822-95), 148, 184, 202, 225-35, 239, 249, 253, 261, 321

Pathology, Medieval, 77; Modern, 301-13; Cellular, 219-24; Comparative, 251-2

Pavia, 149

Peel, Sir Robert (1750-1830), 191

Pelletier, Pierre Joseph (1788-1842), 326

Percival, Thomas (1740-1804), 170-1, 180

Percussion, 160

Pergamum, 52

Pest Houses, 180, 181

Petty, Sir William (1623-87), 166-7, 169

Pflüger, E. F. W. (1829-1910), 205

Pharmacology, 323, 328-9

Philadelphia, 171-2, 258

Philip of Macedon, 27

Philosopher’s Stone, the, 124

Phlogiston, 132, 151-4

Phthisis, 341-3

Physical Synthesis, 102-8

Physiological Synthesis, 203-11

Physiology: of Galen, 56-60; Medieval, 77, 129; Renaissance, 95, 99, 100, 108-15; Earlier 19th cent., &c., 207-19; Modern, 122, 127, 138, 142-51, 301-13

Pinel, Philippe (1745-1826), 288

Pisa, 104, 105

Plague, 80-1, 182, 185, 200-1; Bacilli of, 253-5; Immunization, 266

Plaster of Paris, 246

Plato, 14, 27, 29

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