The growth of medicine from the earliest times to about 1800 - Albert H. Buck

GENERAL INDEX

Abdomen, penetrating wounds of, [469]
Abella, teacher of medicine at Salerno, [245]
Abou Bekr, distinguished Arab physician in Spain, [232]
Abou Sahl el Messihy, distinguished Persian physician, [223]
Abscess, mediastinal, [229]
Abulcasis, famous Arab surgeon, [226]
Abulpharagius, [184]
Académie de Chirurgie, Paris (1731), [450]
Académie des Curieux da la Nature, [364]
Académie des Sciences, [363]
Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, [364]
Accademia del Cimento, Florence, [364]
Acrabadin Kebir, [209]
Acupressure, [143]
Adams, Frederick, [89]
Aegidius Corboliensis, [255]
Aeneas, wounded in groin, [49]
Aesculapius, [47], [49]
symbol of, [315]
temple of, at Cos, [514]
Aëtius, [194], [318]
Afflacius, John, [245], [248]
Agathinus, [142]
Agrate, Marco, [339]
Aigle, daughter of Aesculapius, [50]
Alae nasi, Galen’s comments on movements of, [173]
Albert von Bollstedt (Albertus Magnus), [269]
Alcmaeon, [73], [79]
Alderotti, Thaddeus, [272]
Alexander of Tralles, [195]
Alexander Philalethes, [115]
Alexander the Great, [100]
Alexandria, Egypt, [100], [116]
Alhazen, researches in optics, [233]
Alkaloids (quintessences of Paracelsus), [405]
Almansur, Caliph of Bagdad, [184], [203]
Almenar, Juan, [544]
Alphanus II., Abbot of Monte Cassino, [239]
Alsaharavius, [227]
Alu, [13]
Amatus Lusitanus, [484], [487]
Ambrosia, antidote for poisons, [112]
Amputation of leg (Fig.), [463]
Amrou, [116], [185]
Amulets and other magical remedies, [197]
Anaesthesia, Surgical, from employment of soporific sponges, [253], [462]
Anatomical demonstrations at Salerno, [253]
Anatomical specimens, preservation of, [356]
Anatomy and physiology, important discoveries during 16th century, [353]
Anatomy, importance of study of, [312]
Anatomy, microscopic, [360]
Anaximander, [72]
Anaximenes, [72]
Andreas of Carystus, [114]
Animism, [405], [432]
Antidotarium, early name for pharmacopoeia, [319]
Antidotarium Nicolai, [548]
Antimony, curative action of, [158], [548]
Antiochus, cured by Erasistratus, [106]
Antoninus Pius, [57]
Antrum of Highmore, [359]
Antyllus, [143], [201]
Apes, dissection of, [164]
Apollo, the god of medicine, [18], [50]
Apollonius Mus, [111]
Apothecary, [316], [319]
Apparatus magnus (operation for stone in the bladder), [474]
Apuleius, Lucius, [120], [126]
Aqua vitae, how prepared, [313]
Arabian physicians, dogmatism of, [412]
Arab renaissance, [203], [217], [233], [259]
Arantian operation, a substitute for Tagliacotian operation, [481]
Aranzio or Arantius, [349], [481]
Arceo, Francisco, [484], [486]
Archaeus influus and Archaeus insitus, [399]
Archagathus, [119]
Archigenes, [142], [174]
on ligation of larger blood-vessels before amputation of a limb, [470]
Archimathaeus, [248]
Arderne, John, [307]
Aretaeus, [144]
Aristophanes, [58]
Aristotle, [73], [102], [433]
commentary by Averroes, [229]
Arnold, of Villanova, [292–296]
Arrow, extraction of, from chest during battle (Fig.), [461]
Ars parva, of Galen, [248]
Arteries, ligaturing of divided, after an amputation, [289]
Arteriotomy, for relief of hemicrania, [470]
Artery forceps devised by Ambroise Paré, [512]
Asakku, the demon who produces fever in the head, [13]
Asclepiades, founder of a new sect at Rome, [116], [119], [122]
Asclepieia, [50], [52], [57]
Asclepieion at Cos (Figs.), [53]
at Epidaurus, [52]
Aselli, Caspar, [385]
Assyrian medicine, [11]
Astringents, [133]
Astrologer, a typical, [12]
Astrologers in Babylonia, [14]
Astruc, Jean, [548]
Athenaeus, founder of sect of Pneumatists, [141]
Athens, a great medical centre, [96]
epidemic of the Plague at, [96]
Athletic exercises as a therapeutic measure, [69]
Athotis, [17]
Augustus, Roman Emperor, cured of gout by hydrotherapy, [129]
Auricles of the heart, comments on, by H. de Mondeville, [290]
Auscultation of the chest, [20], [159]
Austrichildis, King Guntram’s wife, [240], [241]
Authors, numerous in Cordova in 12th century, [232]
Averroes, pupil of Avenzoar, [229]
Averroism, [267]
Avenzoar, [228]
Avicenna, [221]

Babylonia, genuine remedial agents employed in, [13]
Babylonian astrologers, [14]
Babylonians, strange beliefs held by, in regard to human anatomy and physiology, [13]
Bacon, Francis, [338]
Bacon, Roger, [271]
Bacteriology, first studies in, [362]
Bagdad, a second great hospital founded at, in A. D. 914, [219]
Bain, Christopher, [396]
Bakhtichou ben Djordis, [205], [207]
Bakhtichou, George, [205]
Barbaric Latin, [262]
Barbers, the earliest surgeons in France, [530]
Barbers and Barber-Surgeons, [282], [369], [449], [464]
Barber-Surgeons’ Company, of London, [519]
Bartholomaeus, [245]
Baseilhac, Jean, [552]
Baseilhac, Pascal, [496]
Basel, public dissection of human body at, [455]
visited by Vesalius in 1542, [455]
Baths extensively used by ancients, [157], [323]
Baudelocque, [539]
Bede, The Venerable, believed in cures by supernatural means, [241]
Belladonna, when first used for dilating the pupils, [157]
Benedictine monastery on Monte Cassino, [238]
Beniveni, Antonio, [389], [498]
Benvenuto Cellini, [341]
Berendes, [159], [317], [322], [426]
Berengarius of Carpi, [342], [374]
Bernardo di Rapallo, [472]
Bertharius, abbot of Monte Cassino, [239]
Berthelot, on Geber, [320]
Bertrucius, [310]
Bile, black and yellow, [86]
manner of production, [109]
Bladder, tuberculous ulceration of, [200]
Blancaard, Stephen, [359]
Blood, inflammation of (Sydenham), [423]
production of, according to Erasistratus, [109]
spirituous, [373]
transfusion of, [408]
Bloodletting, comments on, by Celsus, [152]
from a vein, technique, [152]
how practice first originated, [6]
rule of Hippocrates regarding, [411]
under what circumstances advisable, [133]
Blood-vessels, Capillary, circulation in, [383]
when first injected artificially, [356], [359]
Boerhaave, Hermann, [144], [438], [441]
gives clinical instruction at Leyden, [430]
treatise on chemistry the standard for many years, [440]
Boiling of drinking water practiced by ancient Persians, [26]
Bologna Medical School, [272], [281], [332]
Boniface VIII., Pope, successfully treated for stone in the bladder, [293]
Books, great demand for, in 15th century, [329]
Borelli, Alphonso, [368]
Botallo, Leonardo, [413]
Botanical gardens, [17], [392], [393]
Bougies, urethral, [495]
Bourgeois, Louise, [536]
Boyle, Robert, a distinguished chemist, [406]
Branca, father and son, skilled in rhinoplasty, [459]
Brassavola, experimental pharmacologist, [398]
Breviarium, Arnold’s, [294]
Briggs, William, [545]
Brissot, Pierre, [411]
Bronze surgical knives, [16]
Browne, Andrew, the friend of Sydenham, [422], [424]
Brunner, Johann Conrad, [359]
Brunschwig, Hieronymus, [456]
Brunus, [277]
Bullets not hot when they enter the flesh, [513]
Burinna, name of spring on the Island of Cos, [54]
Byzantium, the new capital of the Roman Empire, [180]

Cabanès, [402]
Cacao, [395]
Caelius Aurelianus, [132], [159]
Caesar, Julius, liberality of, toward foreign physicians settled in Rome, [119]
Caesalpinus, Andreas, [372], [375], [394]
Caesarian section, [396], [534]
Cairo physicians distinguished ophthalmologists, [225]
Calcar, Vesalius’ draughtsman, [344]
Calculus in the bladder may not be dissolved by internal remedies, [498]
Callidum innatum of Hippocrates, [415]
Calvin, John, visited by Felix Platter, [335]
Cancer of breast, sculptured in marble (Fig.), [68]
Cancer, ulcerated, not to be cauterized, [285]
Cannani, [378]
Canon, the, of Avicenna, [222]
Capsicum, [395]
Caraka, East Indian medical author, [31]
Carbonic acid, nature of, expounded by Van Helmont, [400]
Carbonous oxide, [434]
Carcano Leone, [475], [476]
Case histories recorded on tablets, [67]
Cassiodorus, [238]
Castor oil, perfected by Apollonius Mus, [111]
Cataract operations of Pierre Franco, [494]
Cato, Marcus Porcius, [117], [235]
Caustics, too freely used as haemostatics, [466]
Cauterization of ulcerated cancer not approved by Lanfranchi, [285]
Cauterizing instruments, [279]
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius, [150], [151], [155]
Cerebral nerves, crossing of, in relation to paralysis of one side of the body, [144]
Cermisone, Antonio, [313]
Chamberlen, Hugh, [538]
Chaldean doctrine of numbers, [74]
Charcoal, fumes of burning, [435]
Chaucer’s account of a clever physician, [308]
Chemical element defined, [407]
Chemistry in ancient Egypt, [17]
modern, developed gradually from alchemy, [320]
Chicory an effective remedy in abdominal diseases, [109]
Chinese conceptions concerning human physiology, [41]
Chinese medicine, [38], [39]
Chiron, [48]
Christianity, influence of, upon evolution of medicine, [179]
Chrysippus, [141]
Chyle, distribution of, after it leaves the stomach, [109]
Chyle ducts, discovery of, [385]
Cicero’s interpretation of the expression “gods” as employed by the ancients, [18]
Cinchona, discovery of, [408]
Circa instans, the title commonly given to treatise of Matthew Platearius, [253]
Circulation of blood, Galen’s physiology of, [373]
de Mondeville’s comments, [289]
Citizenship, rights of, bestowed by Julius Caesar on all foreign physicians practicing in Rome, [119], [130]
Civitas Hippocratica, [243]
Claudius, Roman Emperor, merciful action of, toward slaves, [235]
Clemens, of Alexandria, Egypt, [17]
Clement IV., Pope, protects Roger Bacon, [272]
Clement V., Pope, removes papal seat from Rome to Avignon, [293]
Clinical instruction at Leyden Hospital, [429]
Clowes, William, [519]
Cnidian school of medicine, [81]
Cnidus, in Caria, Asia Minor, [51]
Coca, [395]
Cold, exposure to, unusual treatment of, [489]
College of Physicians, London, [417]
College of Saint Cosmas, Paris, [283], [284], [448]
Colliget, title of treatise written by Averroes, [229]
Colot, Laurent, famous French lithotomist, [474]
Columbus, Realdus, [349]
experiments relating to physiology of heart, [377]
Côme, Frère, [550]
Communities, term employed by the Methodists for designating the two conditions “laxum” and “strictum,” [130]
Compendium aromatariorum, the first modern treatise on materia medica, [320]
Compendium Salernitanum, [246]
Conciliator, title of one of Pietro d’Abano’s great works, [266], [267]
Constantinople, taking of, by the Turks, an important aid to the advance of medicine, [328]
Constantinus the African, [239], [248], [260]
Contagion, innate, [220]
Contagious diseases, Fracastoro’s classification of, [390]
Continens, title of Rhazes’ great work, [220], [262]
Contraria contrariis, principle of, in therapeutics, [132]
Cosmas and Damian, [282], [449]
Copaiva, Balsam of, [395]
Cophon, teacher of medicine at Salerno, [245]
Cordova, Spain, centre of great intellectual activity, [218], [232]
Corpse, the touching of a, believed by the Persians to produce a special contamination, [25]
Cos, Island of (Figs.), [53]
Costa ben Luca, [215], [216]
Costanza Calenda, [245]
Cowper, William, [360]
Croke, A., [250]
Cronos, [19]
Crotona, Italy, [51]
Cullen, William, [432]
Curtis, John G., [72], [140]
Cyrene, in Lybia, Africa, [51]
Cystotomy, hypogastric, [495]

Damascus, an active medical centre in the 13th century, [225], [232]
Daremberg, [50], [75], [240], [420]
Darius I., King of the Persians, [26], [75]
David’s harp-playing, effect of, on King Saul’s melancholia, [27]
Da Vinci, Leonardo, [339]
Daza Chacon, [484]
De le Boë, Franz, [427]
De Marchettis, Domenico, [359]
Demetrius, of Apamea, [114]
Democedes, [73], [75]
Democritus, [82]
Demosthenes, of Marseilles, [115]
Denys, of Paris, [408]
Desiderius, Abbot of Monte Cassino, [239]
Dezeimeris, [341], [400]
Dietetics of pregnant women, [199]
Dieting and athletic exercises, [69]
Dietz, Reinhold, discoverer of an early Greek manuscript of Soranus, [138]
Digestion, physiology of, according to Erasistratus, [108]
according to Aretaeus, [144]
Diocles, of Carystos, [103]
Dionis, Pierre, distinguished French anatomist, [41], [364], [383], [540]
Dioscorides, Pedanius, [157], [317]
Diphtheria, genuine, recognized by Paracelsus, [405]
Diphtheria, pharyngeal, known in 2d century as Syriac ulcer, [144]
Diseases mentioned in the papyrus Ebers, [20]
Dislocation of shoulder, successfully reduced by Gabriel Bakhtichou, [207]
Dissecting of human bodies, early attempts, [309], [327], [331]
practice approved by University of Salamanca, [346]
practice made obligatory in the medical schools early in 18th century, [364]
Distempers of the stiff and elastic fibres (Boerhaave), [442]
Divine water of the alchemists, [321]
Djondisabour, early establishment of a medical school at, [184], [204]
Doctor, when first employed as a title, [280]
Dodoens, Rembert (Dodonaeus), [395]
Dogmatists, sect of the, [101], [103], [149]
Donato, Marcello, [396]
Don Carlos, of Spain, skull severely injured, [485]
Dorveaux, Paul, [548]
Douglas, James, [361]
Drachma, value of, [207]
Draco, son of Hippocrates, [82]
Dracunculus medinensis, [233]
Drugs, enumerated by Homer in the Odyssey, [18]
enumerated by Dioscorides, [18]
remedial effects of, [398]
Dry treatment of wounds, [275], [285]
DuBois, Jacques (Sylvius), the anatomist, [340], [345]
Dysentery, East Indian treatment of, [409]