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The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art / A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries — Edward Berdoe

The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art / A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries

Edward Berdoe

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 680 pages

A popular history of medicine across ages and countries by Edward Berdoe. It traces the origin and growth of the healing art, from early customs and ancient traditions to later medical ideas. For anyone curious about how healing knowledge developed, this is a wide-ranging historical survey.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. E-text prepared by Turgut Dincer, Les Galloway, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from
  2. THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE HEALING ART
  3. PREFACE.
  4. ILLUSTRATIONS.
  5. CONTENTS.
  6. BOOK I. THE MEDICINE OF PRIMITIVE MAN.
  7. BOOK II. THE MEDICINE OF THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS.
  8. BOOK III. GREEK MEDICINE.
  9. BOOK IV. CELTIC, TEUTONIC, AND MEDIÆVAL MEDICINE.
  10. BOOK V. THE DAWN OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE.
  11. BOOK VI. THE AGE OF SCIENCE.
  12. APPENDIX. ON SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT MINERALS USED IN MEDICINE.
  13. INDEX.
  14. FOOTNOTES:
  15. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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