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The Dawn of Modern Medicine

by Albert H. Buck

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — Théophraste Renaudot, Physician, Philanthropist, and Fo…
  3. 3Chapter II — Low State of Medical Affairs in Germany at the Beginni…
  4. 4Chapter III — Physicians Who Attained Distinction in Some of the De…
  5. 5Chapter IV — Distinguished Swiss Physicians Who Played a Prominent…
  6. 6Chapter V — The Earliest Publication in Europe of a Systematic Trea…
  7. 7Chapter VI — Two Eminent German Surgeons of the Pre-Antiseptic Period
  8. 8Chapter VII — A General Survey of German Medicine at the End of the…
  9. 9Book III — The Vienna School of Medicine
  10. 10Chapter IX — Anton Stoerck, van Swieten’s Successor, and the Progre…
  11. 11Chapter X — Prochaska, Hyrtl and Rokitansky, Three of the Most Dist…
  12. 12Book IV — Medicine in Italy
  13. 13Book V — Small-Pox, One of the World’s Greatest Scourges
  14. 14Chapter XIII — The English and French Chemists Contribute Their Sha…
  15. 15Book VII — Medicine in England
  16. 16Chapter XV — English Leaders in Medicine and Surgery During the Eig…
  17. 17Chapter XVI — English Leaders in Medicine and Surgery
  18. 18Book VIII — Medicine in France
  19. 19Book IX — Medicine at the Height of the French Revolution
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Laënnec and the Invention of the Modern Method of Aus…
  21. 21Chapter XX — Early Studies of the Disease Now Universally Called Ty…
  22. 22Book X — Broussais and Broussaism
  23. 23Book XI — The Golden Age of Surgery in France
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — Workers in Special Departments of Surgery: Demours,…
  25. 25Book XII — Desgenettes and Larrey, France’s Most Celebrated Militar…
  26. 26Chapter XXV — Hospital of “La Maternité,” the Great French Midwifer…
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — Further Details Concerning the Paris Faculté de Méde…
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — Armand Trousseau, One of the Last of France’s Great…
  29. 29List of the More Important Authorities Consulted

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