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PART I. ANCIENT MEDICINE

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Preface     ix

Chapter I. Development of the Science and Art of Medicine     3

Chapter II. Oriental Medicine     11

Chapter III. Oriental Medicine (continued)     25

Chapter IV. Greek Medicine at the Dawn of History     46

Chapter V. The Significance of the Serpent in the Statues and Votive Offerings Exposed to View in the Aesculapian Temples     62

Chapter VI. The Beginnings of a Rational System of Medicine in Greece     67

Chapter VII. Hippocrates the Great     81

Chapter VIII. Brief Extracts from Some of the Hippocratic Writings     89

Chapter IX. The State of Greek Medicine after the Events of the Peloponnesian War; the Founding of Alexandria in Egypt, at the Mouth of the Nile; and the Development of Different Sects in Medicine     96

Chapter X. Erasistratus and Herophilus, the Two Great Leaders in Medicine at Alexandria; the Founding of New Sects     104

Chapter XI. Asclepiades, the Introducer of Greek Medicine into Rome     116

Chapter XII. The State of Medicine at Rome after the Death of Asclepiades; the Founding of the School of the Methodists     129

Chapter XIII. The Further History of Methodism at Rome, and the Development of Two New Sects, viz., the Pneumatists and the Eclectics.—A General Survey of the Subject of Sects in Medicine     138