- Tagliacotian operation, the so-called, [478], [480]
- Tagliacozzi, Gaspare, [478]
- Talismans, amulets, etc., as means of protection against evil spirits, [9], [13]
- Teissir, the, Avenzoar’s great medical work, [228], [230]
- Telesphorus, son of, Aesculapius, [50]
- Temple priests in ancient Egypt, [17]
- Temple sleep at the Asclepieia, [57]
- Temples, Aesculapian, their chief purpose, [51]
- Tents, practice of employing, in the treatment of wounds, condemned, [466]
- Tesrif, the, written by Abulcasis (= Alsaharavius), [227]
- Tetanus, traumatic, Lanfranchi’s treatment of, [285]
- Thaddeus Alderotti, [272]
- Thales, of Miletus, [72]
- Themison, founder of the sect of the Methodists, [130]
- the first to mention the employment of leaches, [133]
- Theodoric of Lucca, [276]
- Theodorus, a disciple of Athenaeus, [142]
- Thessalus, son of Hippocrates, [82], [133]
- Thessalus, of Tralles, in Asia Minor, a prominent Methodist, [133]
- Thierry de Héry, [499]
- Thigh, amputation of, probably performed in early part of Christian era, [470]
- fractures of, [304]
- Thirty Years’ War, the, [426]
- Thomas Aquinas, a believer in the art of the magician, [321]
- Thoracic duct, [384]
- Thot or Thoüt (Hermes), the god, author of the hermetic books, [18], [19]
- Thucydides, [96]
- Tiraboschi, [338], [378]
- Tobacco, [395]
- Toledo, Spain, richly stocked with manuscript treasures of Arabic literature, [261]
- Tolet, François, [550]
- Tolu, balsam of, [395]
- Torcular Herophili, [105]
- Torricella, [546]
- Tosorthos, [17]
- Touching, for the “King’s evil,” [527], [528]
- Tracheotomy performed by Asclepiades (90 B. C.), [124]
- revived by Antonio Beniveni in the 15th century, [498]
- Transfusion of blood, [408]
- Transmutation of baser metals into gold, [321]
- Trautmann, of Wittenberg, [535]
- Trephine, circular pattern of, [473]
- Trephining the skull a very ancient surgical operation, [9]
- Wuertz slow in resorting to the operation, [467]
- Trikka, Thessaly, [51]
- Trotula, a teacher of medicine at Salerno, [245]
- Tuberculosis, virus of, long-lived, according to Fracastoro, [390]
- Turquet de Mayerne, [547]
- Tydides, who smote Aeneas, [49]
U
- Ulcers, treatment of, according to the method of Thessalus, [135]
- Uroscopy eagerly adopted by charlatans in 16th century (Fig.), [412]
- strongly denounced by Scribonius, Botallo and others, [413]
- Utukku, the demon who causes diseases of the throat, [13]
V
- Vagbhata, a celebrated East Indian medical author, [31]
- Valerius Cordus, [318]
- Valves, discovery of, in the larger veins, [378]
- Van Helmont, [398]
- “archaeus influus” and “archaeus insitus,” [399]
- characteristic sayings, [400]
- remarkable remedies manufactured by him, [399]
- Van Swieten introduces clinical instruction at the University of Vienna, [431]
- Varolius, [349]
- Vein should be opened longitudinally in venesection, [286]
- Vena portae, [385]
- Venesection, Celsus’ description of technical details, [152]
- quantity of blood that may be withdrawn, [413]
- spot from which blood should preferably be taken, [411]
- Venous artery (pulmonary vein), [371]
- Venous blood, function of, [373]
- Versification employed in medical treatises, [251]
- Version, podalic, [535]
- Vesalius, [340], [342], [345], [347], [370], [374], [456]
- Vicq d’Azyr, [532]
- Victor III., Pope, [239]
- Vidus Vidius, [340]
- Vieussens, Raymond, [364]
- Villalobos, [542]
- Vincent of Beauvais, [270]
- encyclopaedia of, [263]
- Vindicianus, [192]
- Viper, cases of persons bitten by, [488], [507]
- Vis conservatrix et medicatrix naturae (Stahl), [432]
- Vital force, Stahl’s, [405]
- Vital spirit, Galen’s, [376]
- Vivisection of criminals utilized at Alexandria, Egypt, for scientific purposes, [107]
- Vizir Ali ben Issa founds a great hospital at Bagdad in A. D. 914, [219]
- Volcher Koyter, [349]
W
- Water, contaminated, purification of, by distillation, [305]
- of river Choaspes, ready boiled for use and stored in flagons of silver, carried by King Cyrus on his campaigns, [26]
- Wecker, Johann Jacob, [521]
- Weight-and-pulley treatment of thigh fractures, Guy de Chauliac’s, [304]
- Wharton, Thomas, [359], [546]
- William of Saliceto, [277]
- William the Conqueror a patient at Salerno, [245]
- Willis, Thomas, [360], [367], [546]
- Wine, Galen’s use of, in dressing wounds, [163]
- proper employment of, according to Asclepiades, [125]
- Thalassite, [126]
- Winter, of Andernach, [340]
- Wirsung, George, discovers outlet duct of human pancreas, [358]
- Wiseman, Richard, [524]
- Women instructors in medicine highly esteemed at Salerno, [246]
- Women physicians among the Arabs in Spain, during the 12th century, [232]
- Woodall, John, [522]
- Wounds, dry method of treating, [275], [285]
- too frequent probing of, condemned, [466]
- Wren, Sir Christopher, [408]
- Wuertz, Felix, [465]
- condemns universal employment of chemical caustics and the red-hot iron for arresting bleeding, [466]
- remarks on pyaemia, hospital gangrene and septicaemia, [469], [471]
- remarks on treatment of penetrating wounds of abdomen, [469]
- Wundaerzte, [369]
X
Y