- Yperman, Jehan, a distinguished Flemish physician of 14th century, [309]
Z
- Zend-Avesta, the, [25]
- Zeno, founder of the Stoic philosophy, [103]
- Zerbi, Gabriel, professional visit of, to Constantinople, cost him his life, [337]
- Zeuxis, organizer of a medical school at Laodicea, [111]
- Zirhach, [521]
- Zirbus, [521]
- Zopyrus classified drugs according to the effects which they produce, [111]
- Zosimos, of Panopolis, [321]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] A third volume is in course of preparation, but the probable date of its publication has not been announced. An English translation of the first volume (by Ernest Playfair) was published by Hodder and Stoughton, of London, in 1910.
[2] Book I., section 197, of Rawlinson’s translation.
[3] From the statements just quoted it appears that a certain kind of bronze (an alloy of copper and tin, with the addition perhaps of a little zinc) was used in Assyria, in the manufacture of surgical knives, as early as during the twenty-third century B. C. Dr. Meyer-Steineg, Professor of the History of Medicine in the University of Jena, Germany, assures the writer that knives made of this material are susceptible of being given as keen a cutting edge as are those made of the best of steel. At least one such bronze knife may be seen in the collection of ancient surgical instruments, votive offerings, etc., which he is making for the benefit of the University.
[4] A Christian ecclesiastical writer who lived about the year 200 A. D.
[5] Lines 285–292 of Book IV. of the Earl of Derby’s translation, first published in 1864.
[6] Pason is the same as Apollo, who was believed by the Greeks to have been the inventor or discoverer of the art of medicine.