Greek medicine in Rome : the Fitzpatrick lectures on the history of medicine delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1909-1910, with other historical essays / by Sir T. Clifford Allbutt.

London : Macmillan, 1921.

xiv, 633 pages ; 23 cm

GM 6479

Primitive Roman medicine.--Early Roman medicine.--Origins of Greek physiology--Ionian and Italo-Sicilian.--Alexandrian medicine.--Settlement of Greek physicians in Rome.--The doctrine of Methodism.--Celsus, Musa, Pliny.--Soranus.--Pneumatism.--Some pneumatist and electic physicians.--Rufus and Galen.--Pulse doctrines.--Doctrines of generation.--Hygiene and therapeutics.--On certain diseases.--Pharmacy and toxicology.--Byzantine medicine.--Salerno.--Public medical service and the growth of hospitals.--A chair of medicine in the 15th century.--The rise of the experimental method in Oxford.--Medicine in 1800.--Medicine in the 20th century.--Palissy, Bacon, and the revival of natural science

Includes bibliographic references