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Archigenes of Apamoea (circ. A.D. 98-117), 228.

ArchimatthÆus, 311.

AretÆus of Cappadocia (1st cent.), 228.

Aristotle (born B.C. 334), 192, 384, 421.

Armstrong, G., 439.

Arneman, J. (1763-1807), 435.

Arnica, 350.

Arnold of Villa Nova (1235-1312), 326.

Arnot, N., 478.

Arrack, “the Christian deity,” 47.

“Arrows” as warrants to disease-spirits in China, 127.

Arrow-poison of Indians, 35.

Arsenic, 488.

Artemis, goddess of health, 149.

Arteries, ligation of, 217, 232, 245, 368.

— twisting of bleeding, 224, 237, 368.

Aryans, the, 96.

Asclepiades of Prusa (1st cent. B.C.), 212.

— schools of the, 168, 170.

Asclepiadists, 213.

Asclepiads, the, 157, 168.

Ashwins, physicians of the Hindu gods, 100.

Asoka established hospitals in India, 117.

— royal patron of medicine, 111.

Assellius, C. (1581-1626), 390.

Assyrians, their medicine, 86, 92.

Asthma, remedies for, 37.

Astigmatism, 463.

Astringents, 43.

Astrology in medicine, 129, 139, 319, 334, 335, 351.

Astruc, J. (1684-1766), 429.

AthenÆus of Cilicia (c. A.D. 69), 227.

Athens, plague of, 25.

Athletes rubbed with oil, 44.

Atomic philosophy, 164.

— theory, 159, 449.

Atoms, doctrine of the, 98.

Auenbrugger, L. (1722-1809), 453.

Auscultation, 170, 472.

Book of the Dead, 58, 60.

Bora initiations of Australia, 43.

Borax, 486.

Borde, Andrew (c. 1532), 358.

Borden, T. de (1722-1776), 430.

Borelli, G. A. (1608-1679), 381, 420.

Borneo, birth customs in, 52.

Botanic gardens established, 201.

Botany, 297, 336, 351, 363, 426, 427, 438.

Boulimia, a species of hunger, 197.

Bowls for medicine, 95.

Box-bark poultices, 33.

Boyer, A. (1757-1833), 461.

Boyl-Ya, 17.

Boyle, Robert (1626-1691), 378, 379, 381, 419.

Brahmanism, 110.

Brahmans forbidden by Menu to become doctors, 101.

— their knowledge of medicine, 101.

Braid, J., 457.

Brain, anatomy of, 365, 391.

— diseases, 228.

— surgery, 112, 177, 206, 456.

— — of the Society Islanders, 43.

Branca, 368.

Brandy in medicine, 326.

Briggs, W. (died 1704), 438.

Bright, R. (1789-1858), 454.

British Medical Journal, 467.

Britomartis, 150.

Brittan, 474.

Broca, P. (1824-1880), 458.

Brodie, B. (1783-1862), 459.

Bromfield, W. (1717-1792), 435.

Bromine, 487.

Bronchitis, remedies for, 34, 37, 49.

Bronchocele, 316.

Bronchotomy, 364.

— invented by Asclepiades, 213.

Broth of human flesh, a Chinese remedy, 131.

Broussais, F. J. W. (1772-1838), 446.

Brown, J. (1735-1788), 427.

Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682), 391.

Brown-Sequard (b. 1817), 35.

Darwin, Charles (1809-1882), 451.

Darwi li>

— first used in medicine, 215.

Electro-therapeutics, 457.

Elementary bodies, 83.

Elements as causes of disease, 16, 90.

— in Ovid’s metamorphoses, 166.

Elephantiasis, 228.

— first described, 213.

Elixir of life, 100, 396.

Elliotson, J., 430.

Embalmers of Egypt, 61, 63.

Embryotomy, 294.

Emetics, 43, 83, 156.

Empedocles (born about 490 B.C.), physiologist and philosopher, 160.

Empirics, school of the, 199.

Empiric tripod, the, 199, 201.

Empyema, how treated by Hippocrates, 182.

Enchanters, 91, 108.

Enemas used by Mongols, 135.

Engineering and physiology, 421.

Epidaurus, temple of Æsculapius at, 149.

Epidemics, theory of, 29.

— of middle ages, 329-332.

Epilepsy, 234.

— and demoniacal possession, 181.

— in the New Testament, 16.

Epimenedes, 158.

Epione (the Soother), 149.

Episynthetics, sect of the, 227.

Epsom salts, 438.

Erasistratus of Iulis (about B.C. 340-280), 196.

Erasmus, 357.

Erichsen, J. E. (b. 1818), 460.

Erysipelas, 183.

Esmarch, F. (b. 1823), 462.

Esmun, Phoenician god, 151.

Esquimaux, an intermediate type between past and present, 6.

Essenes, Jewish sect of, 82.

Esthonians, 9.

Ether, 352.

— as an anÆsthetic, 464.

Ethics, medical, 169.

Etienne, Charles (1503-1564), 364.

Etiology, 446.

Etiquette of physicians, 106, 107, 169, 298, 329.

Etruscans, their science, 205.

Eucalyptus, a popular remedy of Australian tribes, 228, 316.

Herniotomy, 362.

Herodicus, 171, 172, 477.

Herodotus on Egyptian medicine, 62.

— found no doctors in Babylon and Assyria, 89, 90.

— (Roman physician), 228.

Herophilus of Chalcedon (about B.C. 335-280), 195.

Hesiod, 155.

Highmore, N. (1613-1685), 390.

Hildegard, St., famous physician, 307.

Himly, C. (1772-1837), 463.

Hinduism as a creed, 97.

Hindus, antiquity of, 96.

Hip-joint disease, 183.

Hippocrates (b. 460 B.C.), 172.

— first described trepanning, 44.

— works of, 178.

Hippopotamus fabled to have discovered the art of bleeding, 156.

Hispaniola, divination and physic in, 26.

Histories of Medicine, 432, 466, 467.

Hobbes (1588-1679), 379.

Hodgkin, T. (1797-1866), 454.

Hoffmann, F. (1660-1742), 421, 422, 424, 472.

Holy water, 272.

— — in Babylonian sorcery, 87.

— wells, 272, 401.

Home, Sir E., 434.

Homer, medicine of, 152.

— on Egyptian medicines, 66.

Homoeopathy, 234, 446-448.

Honain (9th cent.), 295.

Hooping-cough, 285.

Horne, Van (1621-1670), 391.

Horsley, V., 458.

Horus, Egyptian divinity, 58, 60.

Hospitals, their origin, 239, 240, 241, 294, 341.

— in India, 120.

— and medical schools of ancient Hindus, 117.

— at Damascus, 294.

Hottentots, disease-demon of the, 16.

— practise inoculations, 45.

Houel, N. (1520-1585), 375.

Howard, John (1726-1790), 49.

Keill, 420.

Keith, 465.

Kern, Von (1769-1829), 462.

Kerner, 476.

Khonds of Orissa and the small-pox, 12, 13.

— all get royally drunk, 48.

Kidney, the, 389.

— fat of a bewitched man, 17.

King’s evil, 371.

Kircher, A. (1598-1680), 471.

Kirghis cure disease by sorcery, 139.

Knots (magic) as cures for disease, 89.

— as charms, 257.

— in magic, 408, 409.

Knox, 461.

Koch, R. (b. 1843), 474, 480.

Kolarians of Bengal, their cure for diseases, 48.

Kombinegherry tribe of Australia, 24.

Komil, an intoxicating drink, 48.

Koran, 293.

Kousso, remedy for tape-worm, 36.

L.

Lacteals, the, 390.

LaËnnec, R. T. H. (1781-1826), 453.

Lama doctors, 134, 135.

Lamarck, 428, 452.

Lancets, 245.

Lancisi (c. 1718), 472.

Langenbeck, 462.

Langrish, B., 436.

Larry, J. D. (1766-1842), 461.

Latum, 473.

Laudanum, 348, 382.

Lavoisier, 448.

Law, the, of Hippocrates, 178, 179.

Lawrence, W. (1783-1867), 460.

Lead, 487.

Learning, the revival of, 336.

Lectisternes at Rome, 208.

Lectures on medicine, 305, 426.

Leech Book, 276.

Leeches first used in Europe, 214.

— in Sanskrit works on surgery, 114.

Leek juice, 285.

Leeuwenhoeck (1632-1723), 389, 471.

Legal medicine, 376, 454.

— recognition of doctors in England, 353.

Lemery, 419.

Lemon juice in scurvy, 397.

Mott, V. (1785-1865), 462.

Mountain peaks invoked, 16.

Mouse-dung as a remedy, 285, 395.

Muffet, Thomas (died 1604), 361.

MÜller (c. 1786), 472.

Murchison, C. (1830-1879), 454.

M?r?p, a disembodied spirit, 23.

Musandinus, 315.

Music in the treatment of disease, 165.

Mussel shells as surgical instruments, 33.

Mustard, 285.

Myddvai, physicians of, 281, 283.

Myrepsus, Nicholas (c. 1250), 323.

Mystical school, 419.

Mystic sign in Hindu medicine, 109.

Myxoedema, 458.

N.

Naboth, M. (1675-1721), 437.

Naegeli, 473.

Nail-parings, superstitions concerning, 16, 143, 407.

Namtar and Idpa, 89.

Nasal polypus, a punishment for sin, 82.

Nasty physic first disguised by St. Hildegard, 307.

Natural explanations the result of science, 24.

— history, 225, 351, 361.

— — studied by Aristotle, 192.

— philosophy, 336, 377, 378, 379.

— sciences, 448.

Nature the physician of diseases, 176.

Neatness of Indian surgery, 42.

Necromancers, 335.

— and tombs, 413.

Needfire, 273.

Needham, W. (died 1691), 425.

Negro priest-physicians, 28.

— religion is fetishism, 65.

Negroes, their theories of disease, 28.

Nelaton, A. (1807-1874), 461.

Nemesius (4th cent.), 236.

Neoplatonism, its influence on medicine, 235.

Nepenthe, 70, 154.

Nerves, 231, 232, 325, 364, 378, 389, 391, 436.

— of sensation and motion recognised, 379, 410.

Pasteur, L. (b. 1820), 472, 474, 477, 480.

Pastophori, 62.

Patagonian wizards, 21, 22.

Pathology, 227, 313, 437.

— amongst Egyptians, 63.

— of faith-healing, 320.

Pathological school of medicine, 446.

Patron saints of the Javanese, 14.

Paulus Ægineta (c. 7th cent.), 211, 242.

Pecquet, J. (1622-1674), 390.

Peiresc, F. de (1580-1637), 390.

Pelletier, 449.

Pelops (anatomist), 209.

Pemberton, H., 420.

Penance as a remedy for disease, 101.

Penny, Thomas (c. 1570), 361.

Percussion of thorax, 177, 453.

Percy (1754-1825), 433.

Periapts, 254, 255.

Periodeutes, the, 242.

Perkuna, the thunder-god, 9.

Perrault, 420.

Persians employed Egyptian physicians, 71.

Peru, 341, 383.

Petit, J. L. (1674-1750), 432.

Petrocellus (about 1035), 310.

Petroleum, 275.

Petrus Apono (1250-1315), 326.

Peyer, J. C. (1653-1712), 437.

Phagocyte theory, 475.

Phallic worship, 76, 85.

Pharmacopoeias, 313, 363, 364, 392, 394.

Pharmacy, 220, 236, 237, 296, 299, 315, 332, 350, 375, 391, 392, 419.

— and medicine separated, 315, 317.

&# oracity, 38.

— weak as compared with civilised man, 38.

Sawan, the cause of convulsions, 14.

Saws, 244.

Saxon leechdoms, 252.

Scammony, 275.

Scapegoat of the Jews, 15.

Scapulars of Catholics, 75.

Scarabs, 250.

Scarification practised by savages, 33.

Scarpa, A. (1748-1832), 433.

Schelling (1775-1854), 450.

Schizomycetes, 473.

Schmidt, J. A., 463.

Schmucker (1712-1786), 433.

Scholasticism, the parent of modern science, 239.

Schools of medical theory, 418.

Schroeder, 472.

Schuk, F. (1804-1865), 462.

Schulze, F., 472.

Schwann, 472, 473.

Science, age of, 441.

Scientific medicine, 393.

Scourges and plagues, incantations against, 15, 86.

Scribonius Largus (A.D. 45), 214.

Scripts as medicine, 260, 261.

Scrofula, 183, 370.

Scudamore, C. (1779-1849), 467.

Scurvy, 374.

— banished the fleets, 427.

Scythian remedy for hunger, 197.

Scythians, the, 203.

Seamen, diseases of, 427.

Seat of the soul, 196, 379.

“Security” offered for sick persons in China, 127.

Seer, the evolution of, 9.

Seidlitz waters, 424.

Selago, a sacred plant, 270.

Selmi, 476.

Semitic and Aryan intellects compared, 292.

Semmelweis, L. J. P. (1818-1865), 479.

Seneca on doctors, 224.

Seneka, 342.

Senna introduced, 296.

Separation of medicine from surgery, 305.

Septenary theory, 164.

Septine, 480.

Serapion of Alexandria (B.C. 270), 199, 201.

Serapion the elder, 295.

— the younger (about 1070), 296.

Serapis, Egyptian god, 487.

— as a disinfectant in the Odyssey, 154.

— first used for skin diseases, 201.

Suonetar, the healer, 15.

Supernatural invoked when natural means fail, 26.

Superstition, absence of, from the Psalms of David, 74.

— origin of, 24.

— originally engrafted on medicine, 26, 351, 403, 405.

Superstitions, medical, 327.

— their universality, 18.

— in Chinese medicine, 132.

Suppositories, 177.

Surgeons to be propitiated, 103.

Surgery, 228, 235.

— French, 368, 433.

— a scientific profession, 434.

— savage, 40, 41.

— of the Brahmans, 103.

— of the Hindus, 114, 117, 118.

— of Egyptians, 70.

— older than medicine, 41, 104.

— subordinated to medicine, 305.

Surgical instruments of the Bible, 79.

Susruta, 103, 289.

Sutherland, 478.

Sutras, commentaries on the Vedas, 100.

Sutton, Thomas (d. 1835), 456.

Svastika, the mystic, 134.

Swaine, 474.

Swammerdam, J. (1637-1686), 391.

Sweating Sickness, 338, 356, 357, 360.

Swieten, Van (1700-1772), 430, 437.

Sydenham Society, 467.

Sydenham, Thomas (1624-1689), 381, 383.

Sylvanus, a demon of the lying-in chamber, 54.

Sylvaticus, 327.

Sylvius (De la BoË) (1614-1672), 380.

Syme, J. (1799-1870), 460.

Sympathetical cures, 397.

Sympathetic nerve, 389.

Syphilis, 340.

— less frequent amongst Jews than Christians, 76.

Systems of modern medicine, 445.

T.

Tablets on which were recorded cures in temples, 237.

Worm-seed, 36.

Worship of plants arose from their intoxicating influence, 47.

Wotton, Edward, 360.

Wren, Sir C. (1632-1723), 391.

Wunderlich (1815-1877), 455.

X.

Xenocrates of Aphrodisias (c. 70 A.D.), 395.

Xenophon of Cos (A.D. 53), 198.

Xirac, a fermented liquor of the Rio Negro, 48.

Y.

Yambo, the spirit of man, 23.

Yeast-plant, 452, 473.

Yonge, J. (1646-1721), 431.

Young, Thomas (1773-1829), 463.

Yountoo charms, 27.

Youths, savage, initiations of, 43.

Z.

Zacchia, P. (c. 1621), 376.

Zamolxis, 164.

Zedekiah, a Jewish physician, 84.

Zend Avesta, 47, 141, 143.

Zenon, 225.

Zerbis, G., de, 337.

Zinc, 350.

Zoology, 391.

Zoroaster, 141, 143.

— and his teaching emanated from India, 99.

Zuelza, 476.

Zulus, their theory of diseases, 21, 22.

— trace diseases to the rainbow and evil spirits, 13.

Zwelfer, J. (c. 1651), 394.

Zymotic diseases, 480.

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