Review of Old-Time Makers of Medicine (Kindle Edition)

This book was written in 1911 and is about doctors and others who practiced medicine from early christian times to the 15th century. It focuses more on the lives of the doctors than on how they practiced medicine, but there is still some description of how surgery was performed, how dental work was done, the ingredients of medicines, things like that. There are chapters on individual physicians and groups of physicians, medical schools and dentistry. There are 2 appendices about how the advancement of science helped medicine. The table of contents is active, and there are footnotes at the end of the book. The writing is a bit dry, but there is lots of material here for anyone who is interested in how the knowledge of medicine increased prior to the Renaissance.

Product Description
Great physicians in early Christian times -- Great Jewish physicians -- Maimonides -- Great Arabian physicians -- The medical school at Salerno -- Constantine Africanus -- Medieval women physicians -- Mondino and the medical school of Bologna -- Great surgeons of the medieval universities -- Guy de Chauliac -- Medieval dentistry: Giovanni of Arcoli -- Cusanus and the first suggestion of laboratory methods in medicine -- Basil Valentine, last of the alchemists, first of the chemists -- Appendices: St. Luke, the physician. Science at the medieval universities. Medieval popularization of science.

About the Author
James Joseph Walsh (1865 to 1942) was an American physician and author. Born in New York City, he graduated from Fordham College in 1884 and earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1895. After postgraduate work in Paris, Vienna and Berlin he settled in New York. In addition to contributing to the New International Encyclopedia and to medical and other journals, he also published a variety of popular works.

Click Here to see more reviews about: Old-Time Makers of Medicine (Kindle Edition)