- Jacobus Psychrestos, [201]
- Jalap, [395]
- Jamerius, author of “Chirurgia Jamati,” [255]
- Janiscus, son of Aesculapius, [50]
- Japanese physicians, modern, [45]
- Jardin-du-Roi, [540]
- Jaso, daughter of Aesculapius, [50]
- Jean de Vigo, [472], [473]
- Jewish medical students, numerous at Montpellier, [265]
- John of Arderne, [516]
- of Capua, [261]
- of Gaddesden, [305], [516]
- of Salisbury, [264]
- the Grammarian, of Alexandria, [185]
- Journalism, medical, beginnings of, [545]
- Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor, [236], [435]
- Jusserand, [306]
K
- Kerckring, Theodor, [359]
- King, Edmund, [408]
- Kitab al-kullidschat (= “Colliget”), title of Averroes’ treatise, [229]
- Koelliker, [455]
L
- Laboulbène, comments on Sydenham, [425]
- Labyrinth of temporal bone, [80]
- Lancisi, Giovanni Maria, [349], [391]
- discovers copper plates intended for Eustachius’ “Anatomy,” [392]
- Lanfranchi, [282], [284]
- Languages, learned, importance of acquiring a knowledge of them, [271]
- Lanolin, described by Dioscorides in A. D. 100, [318]
- Lapeyronie, François de, [531]
- Laryngoscopy, direct, mentioned by Savonarola, [313]
- Latin, barbaric, [262], [300]
- commonly employed by teachers of medicine in 16th and 17th centuries, [369]
- habitually spoken at Oxford and Cambridge in 17th century, [424]
- Laudanum, Sydenham’s liquid, formula for, [424]
- Laurea Anglica, title of treatise written by Gilbertus Anglicus, [305]
- Laxatives, a term originated by the Methodists, [133]
- Laxum and strictum, [130]
- Le Clerc, Daniel, [73], [171]
- Le Clerc, Lucien, [217]
- Leech lodged in the naso-pharynx, [397]
- Leeches, therapeutic employment of, first mentioned by Themison, [133]
- Leeuwenhoek, Anton van, [360]
- Leg, amputation of (Fig.), [463]
- Leibnitz, [363]
- Leonides, [201]
- Leonine versification, [251]
- Levret, [539]
- Libraries, public, seventy possessed by Spain during the 12th century, [232]
- Liebreich, originator of the term “lanolin,” [318]
- Ligatures applied to blood-vessels by Archigenes in the early part of 2d century, [143]
- employment of, by Jean de Vigo, in 1460, [473]
- used on amputation stumps, [519]
- Linacre, Thomas, [416]
- founded two “lectures of physick” at Oxford, [417]
- instrumental in securing the foundation of the College of Physicians at London, [417]
- Liquor balsamicus, [357]
- Lithontripsy, Giovanni de Romanis supposed to be the inventor of, [474]
- Lithotome of Frère Côme (Fig.), [553]
- Lithotomists, itinerant, [490], [549]
- Lithotomy, suprapubic, [495]
- Lithotrity practiced first by Beniveni in the 15th century, [498]
- Louis de Bourges, First Physician to Francis I., [414]
- Louvain, University of, [345]
- Lower, Richard, [408]
- Lucius Verus, Roman Emperor, [165]
- Lucrum neglectum, probable meaning of the expression, [353]
- Luke, “the beloved physician,” [30]
- Lutetia, Gaul, the present city of Paris, [435]
- Luther, Martin, a believer in the “black art,” [322]
- Lymphatics, intestinal, [385]
- Lyons, France, founding of the Hôtel-Dieu in that city (6th century), [236]
M
- Machaon and Podalirius, sons of Aesculapius, [47], [50]
- Magati, Cesare, [529]
- Maggi, Bartolommeo, [473]
- discoverer of the fact that a bullet is not hot at moment of inflicting a wound, [513]
- Magical remedies, [197]
- Magnus, disciple of Athenaeus, [142]
- Magreb, [218]
- Maimonides, esteemed the greatest Jew after Moses, [230]
- Malevolent spirits, capable of producing disease, [8]
- Malpighi, [360], [361]
- Manardus, Johannes, [389]
- Manfred, King of Sicily, [262]
- founds a university at Naples in 1258 A. D., [257]
- Manuscripts, medical, transcribing of, at Monastery of Saint Gall, [244]
- Marc Antonio della Torre, [339]
- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor, [165]
- Marianus Sanctus, [474]
- Mariotte, Edme, [546]
- Martyrdom of Christian physicians, [180]
- Master of Medicine, grade of, [304]
- Materia medica, early Greek, [158]
- first modern treatise on (1447), [320]
- Mauriceau, François, [537]
- Maurus, teacher of medicine at Salerno, [245]
- Mayerne, Turquet de, [547]
- Meaux Saint-Marc, translator of “Schola Salernitana” into French, [250]
- Mediastinitis, case of, [228]
- Medical teaching in Ancient Greece, [70], [85]
- in the Asclepieia, [69]
- Medical treatises, Greek, destruction of, in Rome, during the 5th century, [185]
- Medicine, beginnings of a rational system of, [67]
- development of different sects, after the death of Hippocrates, [101]
- evolution of, as affected by the Arab Renaissance, [203], [233]
- God of, [50]
- influence of the Italian Renaissance upon, [260]
- mediaeval, [191]
- practice of, at Rome, in century preceding Christian era, [117]
- pre-Homeric period of, in Greece, [46]
- relation of monasteries to, [238]
- slowness of development of, [3]
- Medicine man of the Indian tribes the earliest type of the physician, [8]
- Medina worm discovered by Abulcasis, [233]
- Membrana Ruyschiana, [357]
- Menelaüs wounded at siege of Troy, [48]
- Menocritus, physician, honored by a marble column in Greece, [99]
- Mercuriade, teacher of medicine at Salerno, [245]
- Mesopotamia, medicine in, [11]
- Mesué, John, the Elder, [209]
- Metasyncrisis, a term originated by Thessalus, [136]
- Methodists, school of the, [129], [138], [149]
- Meyer, Ernest von, [400]
- Meyer-Steineg, of Jena, Germany, [16], [52], [53], [68], [120], [129], [134], [142]
- Michael Scotus, [262]
- Microscopic anatomy, first beginnings of, [360], [362]
- Migraine relieved by arteriotomy, [470]
- Mikrotechne of Galen, [248]
- Minderer, Raymond, [407]
- Mineral waters employed extensively by the ancients in the form of baths, [157]
- Mirach, [521]
- Mirfeld, John, [306]
- Misopogon, title of satire written by Julian the Apostate, [436]
- Mithridates, [127]
- Mithridaticum, composition of, [112]
- Mixtum, term employed by the Methodists, [131]
- Mommsen, [235]
- Monasteries in the Middle Ages, [181], [235]
- relation of, to medicine, [238]
- Mondeville, Henri de (Fig.), [287], [288], [289], [291]
- Mondino, the anatomist, [274], [280], [312], [332]
- Monks obliged to practice medicine during the Middle Ages, [141], [154]
- Monte Cassino, founding of Benedictine monastery on, [238], [239]
- Montpellier, Medical School of, [264], [292], [332]
- Morbus gallicus, [543]
- Mosaic laws, the, related particularly to social hygiene, [26]
- Moschion, pupil of Soranus, [139]
- Motassem, Caliph, [210]
- Moxae, moxibustion, [44]
- Murphy’s button, Pfolspeundt’s (15th century) prototype of, [459]
- Musa, Antonius, physician of Emperor Augustus, [129]
- Musandinus, [245], [254]
- Musulmans as zealous as the Christians in establishing hospitals, [237]
N
- Naaman’s so-called leprosy cured by the prophet Elisha, [27]
- Namtar, the special demon of the Plague, [13]
- Naples, university established at, in 1258 A. D., [257]
- Nasal cavity, illuminating the, [482]
- Neo-Latin, [262]
- Neolithic age, state of medical knowledge during the, [9]
- Nepenthes, [49]
- Nerves, wounds of, comments of Guy de Chauliac upon, [302]
- Neuburger, Max, [24], [41], [51], [84], [132], [222], [228], [231], [249]
- Newton, Sir Isaac, [546]
- Nicaise, Edouard, [228], [263], [282], [287], [300]
- Nicholas, the monk, sent by the Emperor Romanus to Cordova as an interpreter of Dioscorides, [226]
- Nicolaus Myrepsus, [318]
- Nicolaus Praepositus, Antidotarium of, [253]
- Nicotine, the alkaloid found in tobacco, [395]
- Norsa family, celebrated as operators for the radical cure of hernia, [482]
- Nuck, Anton, the anatomist, [359], [439]
- Nufer, Jacob, [534]
O