Story of a great hospital : the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh ; 1729-1929 / [A. Logan Turner].

  • Arthur Logan Turner
Date:
1937
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    CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE THE BEGINNINGS OF MEDICINE.i Egyptian, Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine—Greek Medicine—^Esculapius and Hippocrates—The Medical School of Cos—The School at Alexandria— Galen and Roman Medicine—The School at Salerno—Byzantine and Arabic Medicine—The Medieval Universities in Europe and the Renaissance—The Schools at Bologna and Padua. CHAPTER II THE RISE OF THE VOLUNTARY HOSPITAL MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN.II The Monastic Hospital—The Reformation—Dissolution of the Monasteries and Disappearance of the Monastic Hospitals—The Royal Hospital Movement —The Voluntary Hospital Movement. CHAPTER III THE MEDICAL SCHOOL AT LEIDEN, 1575-1738 • • 19 Holland and the Medical School at Leiden in the Seventeenth Century—In the Eighteenth Century during the Period of Boerhaave. CHAPTER IV THE FOUNDATION OF THE EDINBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.31 The Physic Garden, 1676—The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1681—Sir Robert Sibbald and Sir Andrew Balfour—The first Professors of Medicine, 1685—The Anatomical Theatre at Surgeons’ Hall, 1697—John and Alexander Monro—The Foundation of the Faculty of Medicine, 1726. CHAPTER V THE FOUNDATION OF THE INFIRMARY OF EDIN¬ BURGH, 1729 ........ 39 The Appeal of John Monro—Edinburgh in the early eighteenth Century— The Appeal by the Royal College of Physicians—George Drummond, Lord Provost—The Hospital in Robertson’s Close—The Physicians and Surgeons to the Hospital—Clinical Instruction—The First Board of Management— The Surgeons’ Hospital.