Old-Time Makers of Medicine / The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Introduction	1
II.	Great Physicians in Early Christian Times	23
III.	Great Jewish Physicians	61
IV.	Maimonides	90
V.	Great Arabian Physicians	109
VI.	The Medical School at Salerno	141
VII.	Constantine Africanus	163
VIII.	Medieval Women Physicians	177
IX.	Mondino and the Medical School of Bologna	202
X.	Great Surgeons of the Medieval Universities	234
XI.	Guy de Chauliac	282
XII.	Medieval Dentistry—Giovanni of Arcoli	313
XIII.	Cusanus and the First Suggestion of Laboratory Methods in Medicine	336
XIV.	Basil Valentine, Last of the Alchemists, First of the Chemists	349

	APPENDICES
I.	St. Luke the Physician	381
II.	Science at the Medieval Universities	400
III.	Medieval Popularization of Science	427

"Of making many books there is no end."—Eccles. xii, 12 (circa 1000 b.c.).

"The little by-play between Socrates and Euthydemus suggests an advanced condition of medical literature: 'Of course, you who have so many books are going in for being a doctor,' says Socrates, and then he adds, 'there are so many books on medicine, you know.' As Dyer remarks, whatever the quality of these books may have been, their number must have been great to give point to this chaff."—Aequanimitas, William Osler, M.D., F.R.S., Blakistons, Philadelphia, 1906.

"Augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur;
Inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantum,
Et, quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt."

—OVID.

One nation rises to supreme power in the world, while another declines, and, in a brief space of time, the sovereign people change, transmitting, like racers, the lamp of life to some other that is to succeed them.

"There is one Science of Medicine which is concerned with the inspection of health equally in all times, present, past and future."

—PLATO.

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