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CONTENTS.
- Page
- [PREFACE.][vii]
- [CONTENTS.][ix]
- [ILLUSTRATIONS.][xii]
- [CHAPTER I.]
Early Roman Medicine.[1]
- Origin of Healing
- Temples
- Lectisternium
- Temple of Æsculapius
- Archagathus
- Domestic Medicine
- Greek Doctors
- Cloaca Maxima
- Aqueducts
- State of the early Empire
- [CHAPTER II.]
Early Greek Medicine.[13]- Apollo
- Æsculapius
- Temples
- Serpents
- Gods of Health
- Melampus
- Homer
- Machaon
- Podalarius
- Temples of Æsculapius
- Methods of Treatment
- Gymnasia
- Classification of Renouard
- Pythagoras
- Democedes
- Greek Philosophers
- [CHAPTER III.]
Hippocrates.[25]- His life and works
- His influence on Medicine
- [CHAPTER IV.]
Plato, Aristotle, the School of Alexandria, and
Empiricism.[39]- Plato
- Aristotle
- Alexandrian School
- Its Origin
- Its Influence
- Lithotomy
- Herophilus
- Erasistratus
- Cleombrotus
- Chrysippos
- Anatomy
- Empiricism
- Serapion of Alexandria
- [CHAPTER V.]
Roman Medicine at the end of the Republic and the
Beginning of the Empire.[51]- Asclepiades of Prusa
- Themison of Laodicea
- Methodism
- Wounds of Julius Cæsar
- Systems of Philosophy
- State of the country
- Roman quacks
- Slaves and Freedmen
- Lucius Horatillavus
- [CHAPTER VI.]
In the Reign of the Cæsars to the Death of Nero.[63]- Augustus
- His illnesses
- Antonius Musa
- Mæcenas
- Tiberius
- Caligula
- Claudius
- Nero
- Seneca
- Astrology
- Archiater
- Women poisoners
- Oculists in Rome
- [CHAPTER VII.]
Physicians from the Time of Augustus to the Death
of Nero.[72]- Celsus
- His life and works
- His influence on Medicine
- Meges of Sidon
- Apollonius of Tyana
- Alleged miracles
- Vettius Valleus
- Scribonius Longus
- Andromachus
- Thessalus of Tralles
- Pliny
- [CHAPTER VIII.]
The First and Second Centuries of the Christian Era.[86]- Athenæus
- Pneumatism
- Eclectics
- Agathinus
- Aretæus
- Archigenes
- Dioscorides
- Cassius Felix
- Pestilence in Rome
- Ancient surgical instruments
- Herodotus
- Heliodorus
- Cælius Aurelianus
- Soranus
- Rufus of Ephesus
- Marinus
- Quintus
- [CHAPTER IX.]
Galen.[96]- His life and works
- His influence on Medicine
- [CHAPTER X.]
The Later Roman and Byzantine Period.[111]- Beginning of Decline
- Neoplatonism
- Antyllus
- Oribasius
- Magnus
- Jacobus Psychristus
- Adamantius
- Meletius
- Nemesius
- Ætius
- Alexander of Tralles
- The Plague
- Moschion
- Paulus Ægineta
- Decline of Healing Art
- [CHAPTER XI.]
Influence of Christianity on Altruism and the
Healing Art.[127]- Essenes
- Cabalists and Gnostics
- Object of Christ's Mission
- Stoics
- Constantine and Justinian
- Gladiatorial Games
- Orphanages
- Support of the Poor
- Hospitals
- Their Foundation
- Christianity and Hospitals
- Fabiola
- Christian Philanthropy
- Demon Theories of Disease receive the Church's Sanction
- Monastic Medicine
- Miracles of Healing
- St. Paul
- St. Luke
- Proclus
- Practice of Anatomy denounced
- Christianity the prime factor in promoting Altruism
- [CHAPTER XII.]
Gymnasia and Baths.[143]- Gymnastics
- Vitruvius
- Opinions of Ancient Physicians on Gymnastics
- The Athletes
- The Baths
- Description of Baths at Pompeii
- Thermæ
- Baths of Caracalla
- [CHAPTER XIII.]
Sanitation.[155]- Water-supply
- Its extent
- The Aqueducts
- Distribution in city
- Drainage
- Disposal of the Dead
- Cremation and Burial
- Catacombs
- Public Health Regulations
- [APPENDIX.]
Fees in Ancient Times[162] - [INDEX.][163]
ILLUSTRATIONS.
- Asklepios, the ancient Greek Deity of Healing[frontispiece]
- Machaon (Son of Asklepios), the first Greek Military
Surgeon, attending to the wounded Menelaus[p. 17]
- Plate I.—Bust of Æsculapius[face p. 13]
- Plate II.—Hygeia, the Greek Deity of Health[face p. 15]
- Plate III.—Facade of Temple of Asklepios, restored (Delfrasse)[face p. 18]
- Plate IV.—Health Temple, restored (Caton)[face p. 20]