EDWARD BERDOE.
Tynemouth House,
Victoria Park Gate,
London, April 22nd, 1893.
Sprengel gives the following Table of the Great Periods in the History of Medicine:—
| I. | Expedition of the Argonauts. | 1273-1263 B.C. | I. | First traces of Greek Medicine. |
| II. | Peloponnesian War. | 432-404 B.C. | II. | Medicine of Hippocrates. |
| III. | Establishment of the | 30 A.D. | III. | School of the Methodists. Christian Religion. |
| IV. | Emigration of the hordes of Barbarians. | 430-530 | IV. | Decadence of the Science. |
| V. | The Crusades. | 1096-1230 | V. | Arabian medicine at its highest point of splendour. |
| VI. | Reformation. | 1517-1530 | VI. | Re-establishment of Greek medicine and anatomy. |
| VII. | Thirty Years War. | 1618-1648 | VII. | Discovery of the circulation of the blood and reform of Van Helmont. |
| VIII. | Reign of Frederick the Great. | 1640-1786 | VIII. | Haller. |
Renouard[2] arranges the periods of the growth of the art of medicine as follows:—1st. The Primitive or Instinctive Period, lasting from the earliest recorded treatment to the fall of Troy. 2nd. The Sacred or Mystic Period, lasting till the dispersion of the Pythagorean Society, 500 B.C. 3rd. The Philosophical Period, closing with the foundation of the Alexandrian Library, B.C. 320. 4th. The Anatomical Period, which continued till the death of Galen, A.D. 200.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
| Expelling the Disease-Demon | Frontispiece | |
| The Medicine-Dance of the North American Indians | To face p. | [32] |
| Examples of Ancient Surgery | „ | [204] |
| Ancient Surgical Instruments | „ | [246] |
| Interior of a Doctor’s House | „ | [340] |