The Village Doctor — A painting illustrating the practice of Uroscopy in the 17th century by David Teniers the Younger.
Chapter 9. Medicine
"The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade, a calling, not a business, a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head."
— William Osler, MD
The Master-word in Medicine, 1903
Topics covered in this chapter include:
- Ancient Chinese Medical Care
- Ancient Indian Medical Care
- Religion and the Roots of Western Medicine
- Early Hospitals
- INFECTIOUS DISEASE
- Early Heavyweights: the Flea and the Mosquito
- Leprosy
- The French Pox
- Consumption
- Typhoid Mary
- Ignaz Semmelweis: Medicine's Unsung Hero
- An Ironic Outcome
- Immunization for Smallpox and Tetanus
- Growth of the Germ Theory
- PULMONARY MEDICINE
- Tobacco
- GASTROENTEROLOGY
- Purging the System
- The Therapeutic Clyster
- Early Forms of Intervention
- A Classic Description