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Pathfinders in medicine (1912)
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Index
(Numbers refer to original book pages)
Albertus Magnus, 65 Alexander the Great, 23, 24 Andronicus of Rhodes, 27 " Animals, History of," by Aristotle, 27 " Animals, On the Parts of," by
Aristotle, 31
Antipater, Governor of Macedonia, 25 Apellicon, 27 "Aphorisms" of Hippocrates,
12
Aristotle, birth, 21 ; youth, 22 ;
zoological researches, 24 ;
charge against, 25 ; death, 26 ;
history of the manuscripts of
his works, 26 ; account of
his biological writings, 27-44 ;
his philosophy,of nature teleo logical, 39 Arundel, Earl of, 94 Asclepiads, physical training
among the, 4
Asclepions, description of the, 4 Aselli, 100 Aubrey, 95, 97, 98, 102
Bathurst, George, 95 Blood, description of, by Aristotle, 31
Blood, opinions before the time of Harvey as to the movements of the, 85, 86
Bogarucci, 76
Brain, description of the, by Aristotle, 33
Browne, Sir Thomas, 65
Csesalpinus, 98
Calcar, Jean, 71
Callisthenes, 24
Capillaries, discovery of the, 99
" Corporis Humani Fabrica,"
72 Cuvier's exaggerated praise of
Aristotle, 41
"Dead image of God," the,
65
" De Anatome," 66 "De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis,"
88-92
" De usu Radicis, Chinse," 73 Disease, causes of, 7 "Disease, The Sacred," 6 Diseases, natural history of, 9 Dissection of the human body,
10, 52 " Divine old man," the, 3
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INDEX.
Don Carlos, cure of, 75 Ductus venosus, observed by Vesalius, 79
Ent, Dr., 96
" Epigenesis " and " evolution "
compared, 40, 102 Etienne's observation confirmed
by Vesalius, 79 Erasistratus, 47, 58, 85 Eustachius, discovery of the
thoracic duct of the horse by,
100
Fabricius of Aquapendente, 85, 92
Fallopius, anatomical observations of, 77
"Father of medicine," the, 3
Franciscus Puteus, reply to, by Gabriel Cuneus, 77
Foramen ovale, valve guarding the, 79
Galen, birth, 48 ; influence, 49, 60, 65 ; education, 49 ; at Smyrna, 49 ; at Alexandria, 49 ; at Pergamus, 50 ; at Rome, 50 ; return to Greece, 50 ; summoned to meet the Emperors at Aquileia, 50 ; death, 51 ; writings, 51; views as to the modes of existence, 52 ; and osteology, 53 ; and the nervous system, 53 ; and the lacteals, 54 ; the heart, 55 ; the arteries, 56 ; and respiration, 57-59 ; made a
near approach to the Harveian theory of the circulation, 57
Generation of animals, the, 38, 101
Geynes, Dr., 60
Harvey, date and place of birth, 92 ; at Canterbury School, 92 ; at Cambridge, 92 ; at Padua, 92 ; elected Fellow of the College of Physicians, 93 ; appointed physician to St. Bartholomew 1 ^ Hospital, 93 ; physician to Charles I., 93 ; foreign travels, 94 ; present at the battle of Edgehill, 95 ; elected Warden of Merton College, 95 ; death, 97 ; discovery of the circulation incomplete in one respect, 98, 99 ; work on the generation of animals, 101 ; a scholar, 102 ; and comparative anatomist, 103
Heart, description of the, by Aristotle, 35
Hellebore, administered by Hippocrates, 9
Hermias despot of Atarneus, 22 ; murder of, 23
Herophilus, 47, 58, 85
Hippocrates, date of birth, 3 ; Greek contemporaries, 3 ; birthplace, 3 ; his freedom from superstition, 5, 16 ; compared with Socrates, 7 ; medical doctrines of, 8 ; works, 10 ; knowledge of osteology,
INDEX.
107
10 ; traditions concerning, 14 ; oath of, 1 6
Hobbes of Malmesbury, 98
Hoffmann, Caspar, 94
Humours, the four, 8
Huxley, Professor, on errors attributed to Aristotle, 37, 42
Lacteals, the, 54, 100 Lennox, Duke of, 93 Lungs, Aristotle's description of the, 37
Malpighi, discovery of the capillaries by, 99
Marcus Aurelius, 50
Marine animals, description of, by Aristotle, 29
Mediastinum, correct description of the, by Vesalius, 79
Milk in male animals, occasional appearance of, 29
Mundinus, 66
Neleus, 26
Nicon, father of Galen, 49
Omentum, the, and its connections, 80
Owen, Professor, on Aristotle's knowledge of the cephalopoda, 29
" Parva naturalia," 27 Pausanias, 15 Pecquet of Dieppe, 100 Peripatetics, the, 24
Philip, father of Alexander, 22, 23
"Physiological division of labour," 43
Plato, 22
Pliny, 47, 48
Pneunia, 38
Punctum sa/iens, 35, 93, 101
Pylorus, the, described by Vesalius, 80
Pythias, 23
Receptaculum chyli, 100 Roelants, Joachim, 78
Scamnum Hippocratis, 12 Servetus, 86 Septimius Severus, 51 Slegel of Hamburg, 98 Socrates compared with Hippocrates, 7
Sprengel's opinion of Galen, 60 Sylla, 27 Sylvius, 67, 72, 73, 74
Teupulus, Paulus, 77
Theophrastus, 26
Theriac, the, 50
Thoracic duct, discovery of, 100
Tyrannion, 27
Vesalius, birth, 66 ; scholarship, 66 ; studied under Sylvius, 67 ; and Winter of Andernach, 67 ; adventure at Louvain, 67, 68 ; appointed professor at Padua, at Bologna, 108
and at Pisa, 69 ; zeal for correctness in anatomy, 70 ; skill in diagnosis, 70 ; distrusts infallibility of Galen's teaching, 71 ; writes " Fabric of the Human Body," 72 ; is summoned to Ratisbon, 73 ; destroys his manuscripts, 74;
his success as a practitioner, 75 ; charged with impiety, 75 ; is sent on pilgrimage, 75 ; shipwreck and death at Zante, 76 ; works, 76-80 Vix medicatrix natures^ 9
Winter of Andernach, 67
