Natural history, the school of, [219] Natural philosophy, the school of, [249] Needham, [183] Nélaton, [270] Nepenthe, [301] New Vienna School, [250] Nitrous-oxide gas, [303] Nominalist, [069] Nuck, [183]

Obstetrical forceps, invention of the, [166] Obstetricians and gynaecologists, American, [295] Obstetrics, development of, [166] Oken, [249] Ophthalmoscope, [263] Oppolzer, [253] Oribasins, [048] Orthopaedics, origin of name, [177] Ovariotomy, the first, [267]

Pacchioni, [183] Palfyn's obstetrical forceps, [166] Paracelsus, [143] Paré, Ambroise, [123] Paré and the surgeons of St. Come, [131] Park, Henry, [217] Parker, Willard, [293] Paulas Ægineta, [051] Pecquet, [161]
Percussion, invention of the art of, [210] Pergamos, library of, [030] Periodic physicians, [017] Peruvian bark, discovery of, [164] Petit, J. L., [213] Pen, [166] Peyer, [183] Peyronie, [213] Pfeufer, [254] Pharmacopolists, [054] Philosophic period, [012], [018] Phrenology, [163], [242] Physical examination, methods of, [263] Physick, Philip S., [291] Physiological medicine, [253] Pinel, [163], [196], [206], [228] Piorry, [262] Pitard, John, [092] Plater, Felix, [118] Plato, [027] Pleximeter, [263] Podalirius, [010] Porta, Giovanni Batista, [118] Portal, [223] Paul, [166], [182] Pott, Percival, [217] Pravaz, [269] Praxagoras, [027] Priessnitz, [255] Primitive period, [012] Pringle, Sir John, [212] Ptolemy Soter, [031] Purkinje, [222] Purmann, [180] Pythagoras, [015]

Quesnay, [173], [214] Quintus, [042]

Radcliffe, [213] Rademacher, [254] Rapid multiplication of scientific literature, [239] Rasori, [240] Rau, [180] Ray, Isaac, [290] Raymond Lulli, [087] Realism, [206] Realist, [069] Receptaculum chyli, discovery of, [161] Reflex action, discovery of, [248] Reform period, [013] Regulation of practice in colonial times, [285] Reil, [202] Religious orders and the sick, [095] Rembert Dodoens, [115] Reuss, [253] Rhazes, [060] Rhinoplasty, [176] Rhodes, Temple of Æsculapius at, [008] Richerand, [267] Richter, August Gottlieb, [216] Riolan, [128] Rivinius, [183] Rodger, J. K., [293] Roeschlaub, [240] Roger of Parma, [078] Roland of Parma, [078] Rolfink, [188] Rome during the Greek period, [053] Rokitansky, [250] Roser, [253] Rousset and the Cæsarean operation, [134] Roux, [269] Rufus of Ephesus, [042] Rush, Benjamin, [206], [283] Ruysch, [158]

Sabatier, [214] Sacred period, [012] Salernum, school of, [072] Sandifort, [219] Sands, Henry B., [293] Sanson, [269] Santoro, [171] Santoro's thermometer, [171] Sauvage, [196] Saviard, [177] Scalpel, first use of, in dissecting, [112] Scarpa, [162], [215] Schaf hausen, [183] Schneider, [162], [184] School of rational medicine, [254] Scientific societies and journals, origin of, [151] Scultetus, [180] Seminalism, [259] Serapion, [060] Servetus, Michael, [112], [155] Severino, [119], [176] Shoeffer, [100] Shot wounds, the new teaching of Paré concerning, [132] Siegemundin, Justine, [182] Sigmund, [253] Simpson, Sir James Y., [274] Sims, J. Marion, [296] Skoda, [251] Smellie, William, [220] Smellie's modification of the obstetrical forceps, [166] Smith, Nathan R., [292] Societies and academies, foundation of, [235] Soemmering, [162], [222] Sol id ism, [198] Spontaneous generation of life disproven, [321] St. Come, College of, 92, [122] Stahl, [195] Stahl's pietistic system, [195] Steno, Nicholas, [159] Steno's duct, [159] Stethoscope, [262] Stimolo and contrastimolo, [240] Stoerck, [200] Stokes, William, [248] Stoll, [200] Student-life during the 15th and 16th centuries, [148] Surgery, achievements of, [263] reasons for neglect of, [120] Swammerdam, [153], [183] Sydenham, [152], [165], [173] Sylvius, [167] Syme, James, [274] Syphilis, wide-spread outbreak of, [136]
Teeth, substitutes for human, [335] Telescope, invention of the, [099] Tenon, [215] Thaer, [199] Themison, [011] Theory of excitement, [210] Theosophy, [111] Thermometer, discovery of the, [171] Thoth, [002] Tourniquet, invention of, [176] Tourniquet, screw, invention of, [213] Transfusion of blood in man, the first, [176] Travers, Benjamin, [248], [273] Treatment of the insane, improvement in, [228] Troja, [228] Trotula, [079] Trousseau, [247] Türck, [253] Tyrrel, [273]

Universities and royal scientific societies, [192] Vaccination,
compulsory, [228] in the United States, the first, [279] the first, [227] Vagadasastir, [004] Valsalva, [176] Van Buren, William H., [289] Van Helmont, [168] Van Helmont's svstem of medicine, [168] Van Siebold, [216] Van Swieten, [168] Van Swieten and the Old Vienna School, [199] Velpeau, [270] Venesection, first account of, [010] revival of, [118] Verulam, Lord, [153] Vesalius, Andreas, [104] Vicq d'Azvr, [162], [164], [223] Vidal, [269] Vieussens, [162], [186] Virchow, Rudolph, [255] Vitalism, [201] modern, [255]

Wainman, [217] Warren, John Collins, [291] Waterhouse, Dr., [279] Wells, Horace, [305] Werlhof, [211] Wharton, [183] White, Anthony, [216] Charles, [216] Wiehman, [211] William of Salicet, [091] Willis, Thomas, [163], [170] Winslow, [164], [223] Winternitz, [255] Wirsnng, [183] Wiseman, Richard, [180] Wistar. Caspar, [286] Wolf, [222] Wood, George R, [287] Wren, Sir Christopher. 182
Wunderlich, [250], [254]

Zeissel, [253]