Medicine and culture : proceedings of a historical symposium organized jointly by the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, London, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York / edited by F.N.L. Poynter.

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1969
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Credit: Medicine and culture : proceedings of a historical symposium organized jointly by the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, London, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York / edited by F.N.L. Poynter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Abi, Amon d', 221 Abortion, therapeutic —in Britain, 125-26 —in U.S.A., 35, 125 Ackerknecht, Erwin H., 202, 203 Acland, Sir Henry, 73 Acosta, José, 185 Acts of Parliament, see under short title of Act Acupuncture, 261, 279-83, 291-93,299 Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 146 Addams, Jane, 139 Adrian VI, Pope, 180 Africa, 96, 97, 201-10, 302 —anatomy, 220-22 •—conflict with European medicine, 223-30 —ethno-science, 215 —medical ethno-botany, 215 —native medicine, 215-23 —psychiatry, 218-20 —ritual surgery, 217 —therapeutic surgery, 217 —theories of causation of disease, 208-10 —traditional beliefs, 205-8 —veterinary medicine, 222-23 Afro-Asian ethnic medicine, 211-37 Agni tribe, Ivory Coast, 221 Aguilar, Sanchez de, 181 Alarcón, Ruiz de, 181, 183 Alexander VI, Pope, 179 Alexander, Samuel, 109 Alexander Borgia, Pope, 238 Alhazen, 175 Allbutt, Sir Clifford, 83, 197 All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, 44,114 al-Muqtadir, Caliph, 268 Alpino, Prosper, 215 American Association for Labour Legislation, 139 American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, 149 American Economic Review, 156 American Federation for Sex Hygiene [American Social Hygiene Association], 149 American Medical Association, 32, 40, 42, 51 American Pharmacological Society, 167 American Public Health Association, 141 American Society for Clinical Investigations, 145 American Society for the Control of Cancer, 149 Apollo, 286, 288, 289 Appriah, Joseph, 226 Appriah, Mrs. Joseph, 226 Aquinas, Thomas, 180 Arabian medicine, 268, 269 —contacts with Chinese medicine, 268, 291 Aretaeus, 83,266 Aristotle, 101, 294 Arnold, Matthew, 79, 103 Arriaga, Pablo J. de, 181 Arrow, Kenneth J., 133, 156 Ashby, Sir Eric, 84-85, 101, 103 Asia, 43, 96, 97, 230-34 Asklepios, 285, 286, 288, 289, 290 Atcho, Albert, 218-20 Auden, W. H., 244 Austen, Jane, 101 Australia, 91, 157 Austria, 76 Avicenna, 23 Aztec civilization, 181,182,183, 184 Bacon, Roger, 175 Baghdad, Iraq, 268, 271 Baker, Ray Stannard, 139 Baker, Sara Josephine, 139, 148-49 Bambara tribe, West Africa, 211, 212, 213, 214 Bantu tribe, South Africa, 211,212 Bartels, Maximilian Carl August, 215 Bayanda tribe, Central Africa, 221 Beatrice, Dona, 225 Behring, Emil von, 23 Belfast, Northern Ireland, 146 Belgium, 76, 129 Benedict XIII, Pope, 186 —Roman Provincial Council (1725), 186 Bethesda, Maryland, National Institutes of Health, 112,142 —Biologic Standards Division, 168 —National Institute of Mental Health, 120 Biggs, Hermann, 141, 148 Birdwood, Sir George, 197 Birmingham, Warwickshire, 164 —University, 103 Bismarck, Otto, Prince von, 139, 150 Black Sea, 215 Board of Education, 148 Boards of Governors of Teaching Hospitals, 90 Bobo-Dioulasso, French West Africa, 229 Bombay, India —Atomic Energy Laboratory, 303 —Kalim Hospital, 241 Boniface, St., 183 Booth, Charles, 139 Boston, Massachusetts, 148 Boulton, Matthew, 103 Bowers, John, 41, 44, 51, 57, 58, 112, 114-15, 117, 125,244,245, 253, 293-4, 310 Brand, Jeanne, 120, 121, 137-53, 157-61, 165, 166, 167, 308-9 Bregbo, Ivory Coast, Africa, 218, 220 Bridgman, E. C., 265, 266 Bright, Richard, 79 Bristol University, 107 British Medical Association, 126, 150 British Medical Journal, 145 British Pharmacopoeia, 244 Brosse, Th., 233 Broussais, F. J. V., 62 Brown, John, 293 Buchanan, George, 140 Bureau for Dietary and Nutritional Research in Africa, 229 Burnett, Sir MacFarlane, 118 Burstein, S. R., 206, 208 Burton, Robert, 34 Byers, Sir John, 146 Byzantine civilization, 105, 291