Ackerknecht, Erwin H. creator Ackerknecht, Erwin H. text xxu Maryland Johns Hopkins University Press 1982 monographic eng

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xx, 277 p.: ill.; 23cm 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. Erwin H. Ackerknecht. Includes appendix and index R131.A34 0801827264 190806