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Title: Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
Author: James Sands Elliott
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Language: English
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OUTLINES OF
MEDICINE
OUTLINES OF GREEK AND ROMAN
GREEK AND ROMAN
ASKLEPIOS
The ancient Greek Deity of Healing.
From Wellcome's Medical Diary (Copyright)
By permission of Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
The ancient Greek Deity of Healing.
From Wellcome's Medical Diary (Copyright)
hs Wellcome & Co.
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OUTLINES OF GREEK AND ROMAN
MEDICINE
BY
JAMES SANDS ELLIOTT, M.D., Ch.B.(Edin.)
Editor of the "New Zealand Medical Journal,"
Honorary Surgeon to the Wellington Hospital, New Zealand.
Illustrated
milford house inc.
boston
This Milford House edition is an unabridged republication of the edition of 1914.
Published in 1971 by MILFORD HOUSE INC. Boston, Massachusetts
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 76-165987
Standard Book Number 0-87821-036-9
Printed in the U.S.A.
TO MY FATHER
[Pg vii]
PREFACE.
I was stimulated to write these Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by a recent sojourn in
the south-eastern part of Europe. The name of the book defines, to some extent, its limitations,
for my desire has been to give merely a general outline of the most important stages in the
advancement of the healing art in the two Empires to which modern civilization is most
deeply indebted. There are a few great works on the history of medicine by continental
writers, such, for instance, as those by the German writers, Baas, Sprengel, and Puschmann,
but, generally speaking, the subject has been much neglected.
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I cherish the hope that this little work may appeal to doctors, to medical students, and to those
of the public who are interested in a narration of the progress of knowledge, and who realize
that the investigation of the body in health and disease has been one of the most important
features of human endeavour.
The medical profession deserves censure for neglect of its own history, and pity 'tis that so
many practitioners know nothing of the story of their art. For this reason many reputed
discoveries are only re-discoveries; as Bacon wrote:[Pg viii] "Medicine is a science which
hath been, as we have said, more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than
advanced; the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I
find much iteration, and small progression." Of late years, however, the History of Medicine
has been coming into its kingdom. Universities are establishing courses of lectures on the
subject, and the Royal Society of Medicine recently instituted a historical section.
The material I have used in this book has been gathered from many sources, and, as far as
possible, references have been given, but I have sought for, and taken, information wherever
it could best be found. As Montaigne wrote: "I have here only made a nosegay of culled
flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together."
I have to express my indebtedness to my friend, Mr. J. Scott Riddell, M.V.O., M.A., M.B.,
C.M., Senior Surgeon, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, for his great kindness in reading the proof-
sheets, preparing the index and seeing this book through the press and so removing one of the
difficulties which an author writing overseas has to encounter; also to my publishers for their
courtesy and attention.
James Sands Elliott.
Wellington,
New Zealand.
January 5, 1914.
[Pg ix]
CONTENTS.
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Page
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PREFACE.vii
•
CONTENTS.ix
•
ILLUSTRATIONS.xii
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CHAPTER I.
Early Roman Medicine. 1
o
Origin of Healing
o
Temples
o
Lectisternium
o
Temple of Æsculapius
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o
Archagathus
o
Domestic Medicine
o
Greek Doctors
o
Cloaca Maxima
o
Aqueducts
o
State of the early Empire
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CHAPTER II.
Early Greek Medicine. 13
o
Apollo
o
Æsculapius
o
Temples
o
Serpents
o
Gods of Health
o
Melampus
o
Homer
o
Machaon
o
Podalarius
o
Temples of Æsculapius
o
Methods of Treatment
o
Gymnasia
o
Classification of Renouard
o
Pythagoras
o
Democedes
o
Greek Philosophers
•
CHAPTER III.
Hippocrates. 25
o
His life and works
o
His influence on Medicine
•
CHAPTER IV.
Plato, Aristotle, the School of Alexandria, and Empiricism. 39
o
Plato
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Aristotle
o
Alexandrian School
o
Its Origin
o
Its Influence
o
Lithotomy
o
Herophilus
o
Erasistratus
o
Cleombrotus
o
Chrysippos
o
Anatomy
o
Empiricism
o
Serapion of Alexandria
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CHAPTER V. [Pg x]
Roman Medicine at the end of the Republic and the Beginning of the Empire. 51
o
Asclepiades of Prusa
o
Themison of Laodicea
o
Methodism
o
Wounds of Julius Cæsar
o
Systems of Philosophy
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