THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH
OF
THE HEALING ART

A POPULAR HISTORY OF MEDICINE
IN ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES.

BY

EDWARD BERDOE,
Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; Member of the Royal College of
Surgeons, England; Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, London, etc., etc.
Author of “The Browning Cyclopædia,” etc., etc.

London
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO.
PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1893

Butler & Tanner,
The Selwood Printing Works,
Frome, and London.


PREFACE.