The advance of medicine / by Lord Moynihan.

  • Berkeley Moynihan
Date:
1932
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Credit: The advance of medicine / by Lord Moynihan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I. SUMMARY The advance of Science, including t Science of Healing (Ars Medicatrix). II. Medicine the Mother of all Science. Hippocrates and Observation (Method of Induction). Galen and Experi¬ ment (Method of Deduction). III. Era of sterile authority. Dominance by Hippocrates. Cause. Pernicious result. Moors and Arabs. Avicenna. IV. The Dawn. i. Italy. Mondinus, Vesalius, Eustachius, Fallopius, Fabricius, Morgagni. ii. Britain. Harvey, John Hunter, Baillie. iii. France. Bichat. V. The Day. Darwin, Pasteur, Lister. VI. Parting of the ways. The Physiology of early disease. Need for Hospital research on Man. Training in the experimental method of Galen. VII. Truancy and Disruption of Physiology. Chemistry, Physics, Bio-Chemistry. VIII. Aloofness of chemist and physicist from Medicine. IX. Need for alliance in the interests of Medicine. X. The Art of Healing a Sacrament. APPENDICES i. On training the Student. ii. On Vivisection. iii. The Relation of Physics and Chemistry to Medicine. Historical medical