| Description |
1 online resource (3 preliminary leaves, v-vi, [2], 446 pages) |
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Fordham University Press series |
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Fordham University Press series
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| Contents |
Great physicians in early Christian times.--Great Jewish physicians.--Maimonides.--Great Arabian physicians.--The medical school at Salerno.--Constantine Africanus.--Medieval women physicians.--Mondino and the medical school of Bologna.--Great surgeons of the medieval universities.--Guy de Chauliac.--Medieval dentistry.--Giovanni of Arcoli.--Cusanus and the first suggestion of laboratory methods in medicine.--Basil Valentine, last of the alchemists, first of the chemists.--Appendices: St. Luke, the physician. Science at the medieval universities. Medieval popularization of science |
| Summary |
"The material for this book was gathered partly for lectures on the history of medicine at Fordham University School of Medicine, and partly for articles on a number of subjects in the Catholic Encyclopedia. Some of it was developed for a series of addresses at commencements of medical schools and before medical societies, on the general topic how old the new is in surgery, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy. Though so much nearer in time medieval medicine seems much farther away from us than is Greek medicine. Most of us are quite sure that the impression of distance is due to its almost total lack of significance. It is with the idea of showing that the medieval generations, as far as was possible in their conditions, not only preserved the old Greek medicine for us in spite of the most untoward circumstances, but also tried to do whatever they could for its development, and actually did much more than is usually thought, that this story of "Old-Time Makers of Medicine" is written. It represents a period--that of the Middle Ages--that is, or was until recently, probably more misunderstood than any other in human history. The purpose of the book is to show at least the important headlands that lie along the stream of medical thought during the somewhat more than a thousand years from the fall of the Roman Empire under Augustulus (476) until the discovery of America"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| In |
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO) EBSCO |
| Subject |
Medicine, Medieval.
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Physicians.
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Medicine -- History.
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History of Medicine
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History, Medieval
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Physicians
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physicians.
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history of medicine.
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Medicine
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Medicine, Medieval
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Physicians
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
12000168 |
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