- 1Preface
- 2Book I — The Medicine of Primitive Man — Chapter I — Primitive Man…
- 3Chapter II — Animism
- 4Chapter III — Savage Theories of Disease
- 5Chapter IV — Magic and Sorcery in the Treatment of Disease
- 6Chapter V — Primitive Medicine
- 7Chapter VI — Primitive Surgery
- 8Chapter VII — Universality of the Use of Intoxicants
- 9Chapter VIII — Customs Connected With Pregnancy and Child-Bearing
- 10Book II — The Medicine of the Ancient Civilizations
- 11Chapter II — Jewish Medicine
- 12Chapter III — The Medicine of Chaldæa, Babylonia, and Assyria
- 13Chapter IV — The Medicine of the Hindus
- 14Chapter V — Medicine in China, Tartary, and Japan
- 15Chapter VI — The Medicine of the Parsees
- 16Book III — Greek Medicine
- 17Chapter II — The Medicine of Hippocrates and His Period
- 18Chapter III — Post-Hippocratic Greek Medicine — The Schools of Medi…
- 19Chapter IV — The Earlier Roman Medicine
- 20Chapter V — Later Roman Medicine
- 21Chapter VI — Amulets and Charms in Medicine
- 22Book IV — Celtic, Teutonic, and Mediæval Medicine
- 23Chapter II — Mohammedan Medicine
- 24Chapter III — Rise of the Monasteries
- 25Chapter IV — Rise of the Universities
- 26Chapter V — The School of Salerno
- 27Chapter VI — The Thirteenth Century
- 28Chapter VII — The Fourteenth Century
- 29Chapter VIII — The Fifteenth Century
- 30Chapter IX — Medicine in Ancient Mexico and Peru
- 31Book V — The Dawn of Modern Scientific Medicine
- 32Chapter II — The Seventeenth Century
- 33Chapter III — Skatological Medicine and the Reform of Pharmacology
- 34Chapter IV — Baths and Mineral Waters
- 35Chapter V — Witchcraft and Medicine
- 36Chapter VI — Medical Superstitions
- 37Chapter VII — The Eighteenth Century
- 38Book VI — The Age of Science
- 39Chapter II — Medical Reforms
- 40Chapter III — The Germ Theory of Disease
- 41Appendix — On Some of the More Important Minerals Used in Medicine
The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art
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