An Epitome of the History of Medicine

CHAPTER I.

_Medicine Among the Hebrews, the Egyptians, the Orientals, the Chinese, and the Early Greeks.--The Asclepiadæ.--Further Arrangement into Periods ( Renouard's Classification). The Age of Foundation.--The Primitive; Sacred, or Mystic; and Philosophic Periods.--Systems in Vogue: Dogmatism, Methodism, Empiricism, Eclecticism.--Hippocrates, born 460 B.C._

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