STATE OF MEDICINE IN WESTERN EUROPE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Chapter II. Low State of Medical Affairs in Germany at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century[15]
Chapter III. Physicians who Attained Distinction in Some of the Departments of Medicine during the First Half of the Eighteenth Century[18]
Chapter IV. Distinguished Swiss Physicians who Played a Prominent Part in the Development of the Science and Art of Medicine in Germany[34]
Chapter V. The Earliest Publication in Europe of a Systematic Treatise on Hygiene, Public Health and Medico-Legal Science[43]
Chapter VI. Two Eminent German Surgeons of the Pre-Antiseptic Period[48]
Chapter VII. A General Survey of German Medicine at the End of the Eighteenth Century[52]

BOOK III

THE VIENNA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Chapter VIII. Gerhard Van Swieten[59]
Chapter IX. Anton Stoerck, Van Swieten’s Successor, and the Progress of Medical Affairs at Vienna under the Management of Joseph II[71]
Chapter X. Prochaska, Hyrtl and Rokitansky, Three of the Most Distinguished Teachers at the Medical School of Vienna during the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century[79]

BOOK IV

MEDICINE IN ITALY

Chapter XI. Baglivi, Morgagni, Scarpa, Spallanzani, Tissot and Galvani; Italy’s most Illustrious Physicians during the Eighteenth Century[91]

BOOK V

SMALL-POX, ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST SCOURGES