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Contents: Paleopathology and paleomedicine -- Primitive medicine -- Medicine of ancient civilizations -- Ancient India and China -- Greek medicine: Physicians, priests, philosophers -- Greek Medicine: Hippocratic medicine -- Greek medicine: Alexandria and Rome -- Medieval medicine -- Renaissance medicine -- Medicine in the seventeenth century -- Medicine in the eighteenth century -- The clinical schools of the first half of the nineteenth century -- The basic sciences during the nineteenth century -- Clinical medicine of the second half of the nineteenth century -- Microbiology -- Surgery and gynecology in the nineteenth century -- The new specialism of the nineteenth century -- Public health and professional developments in the nineteenth century -- Medicine in the United States prior to 1900 -- Epilogue: Trends in the twentieth-century medicine.