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

Ear, cherry pit in, [396]
fatal disease of, [489]
East Indian surgeons performed suprapubic cystotomy before the Christian era, [497]
Eben el Khammar, a distinguished Persian physician, [222]
Ebers papyrus, the, [20]
Eclectics, the, [142], [149]
Egypt, ancient, practice of medicine in, [16], [17]
process of embalming in, [17]
temples were used as hospitals and as medical schools, as well as for purposes of worship, [19]
Egyptians, the ancient, surgical instruments used by, [21]
surgical methods employed by, [21]
therapeutics of, [20]
they were good sanitarians, [23]
they were the originators of many of the Mosaic laws, [27]
Eleatic school of philosophy, [73]
Elbow-joint, exarticulation of, [508]
Electric ray, shocks communicated by, utilized in treatment of severe headache, [155]
Elisha the prophet cures Naaman’s so-called leprosy, [27]
Embalming, Egyptian process of, [17]
Emir Adhad Eddoula founds a great hospital at Bagdad, [219]
Empedocles (444 B. C.) places the seat of the hearing in the labyrinth of the temporal bone, [80]
Empirics, sect of the, [101], [111], [149]
Encyclopaedists, the, [156]
Epicureans, the, [102]
Epidaurus, in Argolis, Greece, [51]
Epione, wife of Aesculapius, [50]
Erasistratus, [104], [106], [110]
teachings of, with regard to nature of the blood and the circulation, [371]
Erasmus, on Linacre, [418]
Étienne, Robert, [197]
Euenor, [99]
Euler, Leonhard, [360]
Euporista, title of Oribasius’ treatise, [192]
Euporiston, title of treatise by Priscianus, [193]
Eustachius, Bartholomaeus, [345], [348], [358], [384]
Evil spirits, part played by, in producing disease, [8]
Exercise, physical, not absolutely necessary to persons in normal health, [125]
Experience, great value attached to, by Hippocrates, [148]

Fabiola, the widow, established the first hospital in Rome, [235]
Fabricius ab Acquapendente, [349], [351], [378], [478]
Fabricius of Hilden, [464]
Facial hemiparesis, sculptured in marble (Fig.), [68]
Fallopius or Falloppius, Gabriele, [341], [348], [360], [393], [474], [478]
Farragut, of Girgenti, Sicily, [262]
Faust, Johannes, [322]
Fedeles, Fortunatus, [398]
Fees, medical, in Babylonia, [15]
Fever, nature of, as taught by Sydenham, [423]
Feldbuch der Wundartzney, von Gerssdorff’s, [462]
Femur, fracture of, [510]
Ferment in blood the cause of small-pox (Rhazes), [220]
Fernel, Jean, [414]
Filaria Medinensis, removal of, from boy’s leg, [489]
Finckenstein, [543]
Fistula in ano, John Arderne’s treatise on, [307]
Flammula, [522]
Flint knives, [9]
Flos Medicinae, title of medical treatise, [251]
Flourens, [374]
Foramen Botalli, [413]
Forceps for crushing stone in the bladder (Fig.), [497]
Forceps, obstetrical, invention of, [535]
Foreest, Peter, [413]
Formulary of Sabour ben Sahl, [209]
Fossel, [391]
Fra Sarpi, [378]
Fracastoro, Hieronymus, [221], [362], [389], [391]
Franco, Pierre, [490], [494], [495], [497]
Franconian operation, revived in 1719 by John Douglas of London, [496]
Frederick II., King of Sicily, promotes work of translating from the Arabic, [261]
Freind, John, [184], [195], [416]
Frère Jacques de Beaulieu, [550]
Friedlaender, [3]

Gabriel, the most distinguished member of the Bakhtichou family, [207]
Gaius, of Naples, a distinguished ophthalmologist, [115]
Gale, Thomas, [517]
Galeazzo di Santa Sofia, Professor of Anatomy at Vienna, [311]
Galen, Claudius, [74], [160], [316], [344]
on the nature of the blood, [372]
on the true function of respiration, [372]
on the treatment of wounds, [275]
treatises written by, [167]
Galenic doctrines, [400]
Galenical preparations, [317]
Galenism, meaning of the term, [388]
Galenists, English, in 17th century, [419]
Galen’s system of therapeutics still used in Persia, [317]
Galileo, [546]
Gallu, the demon who causes diseases of the hand, [13]
Gariopontus, a teacher at Salerno, [245], [247]
Gas sylvestre, [401]
Geber, credited with being the founder of chemistry, [233]
now believed to be a mythical personage, [320]
Gentile da Foligno, [266]
Gerard of Cremona, [227], [261]
Germ origin of certain febrile diseases suspected by Rhazes, [221]
Germany, devastated during the 17th century, [426]
medical education in (from 1400 to 1600), [454]
Gerssdorff, Hans von, [460]
Gesner, Conrad, [394]
Gilbertus Anglicus, [305], [516]
Gilles de Corbeil, on urology, [255]
Gladiators, schools for, [68]
Glauber’s salt, [410]
Glisson, Francis, [358], [546]
Glossulae quatuor magistrorum, [280]
Gordonius, [296]
Gourdon, Bernard de (Gordonius), [296]
Gout, remedy for, recommended by Aëtius, [195]
Graaf, Reignier de, [359], [361]
Grapheus, Benevenutus, celebrated eye surgeon of the 12th century, [256]
Graves, robbing of, for dissecting material, [309], [332], [336]
Great Britain, condition of surgery in, during 16th and 17th centuries, [516]
Greek proverbs relating to medicine, [77]
Gregory, Bishop of Tours, [241]
Griffon, Jean, distinguished Genevese surgeon, [464]
Guaiac, inefficient anti-syphilitic remedy, [405]
Guainerio, of Pavia, [496]
Guarna, Rebecca, [245]
Guericke, Otto von, [546]
Guido Guidi (Vidus Vidius), the anatomist, [340]
Guillemeau, Jacques, [536]
Guiscard, Robert, a resident at Salerno, [240]
Guldinus, Paul, [409]
Gunpowder, first employment of, in European warfare, [328]
Gunshot wounds, [467], [473]
Gurlt, von, [455]
Guy de Chauliac, [227], [263], [298], [299], [310]
founder of didactic surgery, [300]
manner of treating injured nerves, [302]
manner of treating fractures of the thigh, [304]
Gymnastic exercises, institutions for cultivating, [68]
Gynaecologists, early, [115]
Gynaecology successfully practiced by Soranus, [140]

Haller, Albert von, [142], [344]
Haly, Abbas, a Persian physician and the author of the famous treatise called “Al-Maleky”—“The Royal Book,” [223]
Hammurabi’s law with reference to physicians’ fees in Babylonia, [15]
Harderwyk, University of, [439]
Haroun Alraschid, [206]
Harvey, William, discoverer of the circulation of the blood, [379]
Head, injuries of (Wuertz), [467]
Heart, anatomy of, according to de Mondeville, [289]
physiology of, [377]
Heidelberg, University of, [454]
Heliodorus, [202]
Helvetius, [409]
Hemorrhage from a wound, different means of arresting, [154], [277]
Henry the Second’s manner of death, [511]
Henschel, researches of, [246]
Herakleides, of Tarentum, [111]
Hercules an ancestor of Hippocrates, [81]
Hermetic books relating to medicine, [18]
Hernia, radical cure of, by members of the Norsa family, [482]
Hernia-healers, [490]
Herodicus, of Selymbria, [69]
Herodotus, a different person from the famous historian, [26], [142]
Herophilus, a distinguished physician of Chalcedon, [104]
Herzog, excavations made by, at Cos, [55]
Hesychios, [201]
Heurnius, Johannes, clinical teacher at Leyden, [429]
High operation for stone in the bladder (le haut appareil), [495], [496]
Highmore, Nathaniel, [359], [546]
Hindu physicians held very crude ideas about pathology, [31]
Hippocrates the Great, [81], [82], [98], [411]
Hippocratic oath, [71]
Hippocratic writings, French version of Littré, [83]
German version of Fuchs, [84]
short extracts, [89]
Hirsch, August, [399], [545]
Hobeïch, [215]
Hofmann, Moritz, [358]
Hoffmann, Friedrich, [431], [434]
Hoffmann’s anodyne, [437]
Homeric poems probably written about B. C. 800, [46]
Homer’s familiarity with anatomy, [48]
Honein, [208], [212], [214], [317]
Hospital gangrene, Wuertz’s views regarding, [469]
Hospitals in the Middle Ages, [219], [235]
Hôtel-Dieu at Lyons founded in the 6th century, [236], [450]
Hôtel-Dieu at Paris over-crowded in early part of 16th century (Fig.), [452]
Hrabanus Maurus, Abbot of Fulda Monastery, [241]
Hugo Benzi (Hugo of Siena), [312]
Hugo of Lucca, [275]
Hydrotherapy at the Cos Asclepieion, [54]
in the treatment of gout, [129]
Hygieia, daughter of Aesculapius, [50]
Hyoscyamus, when first used for dilating the pupils, [157]
Hyrtl, Joseph, [311], [356], [532]

Iatreia, or small private hospitals, [68]
Iatrochemists and IATROPHYSICISTS in 17th century, [366]
Ibrahim, pupil of George Bakhtichou, [206]
Idea morbosa (Van Helmont), [399]
Ileo-caecal valve, discovery of, [350]
Iliad and Odyssey, references in, to medicine, [47]
India, ancient, rich in skilful surgeons, [35]
India, great mortality in, from bites of venomous serpents, [64]
the medicine of, [31]
Ingrassia, [349]
Innocent XI., Pope, [392]
Inoculation against small-pox practiced by the Chinese in the 11th century, [43]
Intention, healing by first, [277]
Intestine, wounds of, [255], [459]
Ionian School of Philosophy, [72]
Ipecacuanha, discovery of, [408], [409]
Isaac, son of Honein, [215]
Isis, [19]
Isola San Bartolommeo, [51]
Israelites, medicine of the, [26], [27]
Issa ben Chalata, [205]
Itinerant lithotomists, [549]