Columbus, 2, 209, 327, 329, 359
Conception, 35
Constantine Africanus, 5, 24, 123, 134, 145, 151, 163, 236, 266, 433
Constitution of the sun, 339
Consolations, 428
Consumption, 44
Conrad, 192
Conrad Mutianus, 344
_Contrecoup_, 240
_Convito_, 428
Copernicus, 346
Copho, 154, 205
Cordova, 75, 92, 134, 135
Cornelius, 38
Corrosive sublimate, 335
Cos, 135
Cosmas and Damian, 26
Criticism, higher, 7
Crown, dental, 316;
cap, 316
Cusanus, 336
Cures of Afflacius, 171
Cuvier, 406
Cycloid curve, 346
=D=
Da Lucca, 246
Damascus, 111
Daniel Morley, 134
Dante, 183, 211, 306, 407, 417
Daremberg, 180, 303
Darwin, 355, 399
David, 97
Decadence, 6
De Renzi, 143, 162, 182, 238, 239
Dental appliances, 316;
decay, 318;
hygiene, 325;
surgery, 327;
instruments, 320
_Dentatores_, 320
Dentrifices, 316
Descartes, 133
Desiderius, 145, 164, 168
Deventer, 344
Dezimeris, 302
Diaphoresis, 47
Diarbekir, 28
Didacus Lopez, 130
Diet, 46, 116
Dietetics, 99, 157
Di Liucci, 205
Dinus de Garbo, 130
Diogenes, 267
Dioscorides, 79, 266, 385
Diphtheria, 32
Diseases made incurable, 274;
eye, 300
D'Israeli, 76
Dissecting material, 134;
wounds, 227
Dissection, 224;
supposed prohibition of, 424
Divine Comedy, 428
Divorce, 5
Djondisabour, 71, 109
Dock (Miss), 401
Dog, rabid, 31
Donolo, 78
Drainage, 241, 249
Dreams, 68
Driesch, 399
Dschibril, 57
Dschordschis, 56
Du Bouley, 199
Duke, Robert, 167
Duns Scotus, 108
=E=
Eclecticism, 248
Eclipse, 22
_Ecstasis_, 386
Eddyites, 385
Edessa, 9
Egidius, 134
Elixir of immortal life, 25
Embryology, 28
Encyclopedia biblica, 430
Energy, Conservation of, 417
Epilepsy, 43
Epiplocele, 53
Epiplo-enterocele, 53
Epithelioma, 37
Epulis, 32
Erasistratus, 221, 385
Erasmus, 344, 361
Esophagus, 33
Ethics, medical, 77
Ethnography, 414
Etruscans, 315
Eusebius, 26
Eustachius, 2, 209
Eustachian canal, 327, 329
Examinations, 136
Experience, 403
Experiment, master of, 404
=F=
Fabiola, 11
Fabricius de Acquapendente, 125
Fallopius, 302, 327
Faradj Ben Salim, 79, 170
Faragut, 79
Father of Modern Surgery, 283
Faucon, 312
Feminine education, 178, 188;
cycles of, 200
Ferrara, 248, 328
Festus, 428
Filling of the teeth, 335
Finsen, 421
First intention, 18
Fish bones, 51
Florence, 206, 248
Floyer, 336
Forefathers in medicine, 380
Foreign body, 33
Foreign bodies, 48
Forli, 206
Foster, Sir Michael, 354
Foundlings, 8
Foundling asylums, 25
Founder of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, 353
Four Masters, 154, 238, 242, 243, 273
Fractures, 240;
of pubic arch, 128;
of base, 242;
of skull, 244;
split or crack, 243
Francis, Dr. Samuel, 223
Frederick I, 192;
II, 147
Freind, 112, 302
Friedenwald, 64
Friuli, 206
=G=
Gaddesden, 287
Galeatus de Sancta Sophia, 130
Galileo, 355
Galen, 3, 13, 35, 43, 73, 91, 115, 117, 129, 179, 266, 230, 204, 430, 385
Galenists, 120
Galvani, 166, 209
Gario Pontus, 43
Gentilis de Fulgineis, 130
Geography, physical, 413
Geometric transmutation, 340
Gerard of Cremona, 134, 170
Ghetto, 62
Giffert, Prof., 396
Gilbert, 421
Giliani, Alessandra, 188
Gilles de Corbeil, 134, 150
Giotto, 211, 306
Giovanni of Arcoli, 313, 324, 328
Glands, cervical, 259
Goitre, 33, 151;
cystic, 259
Gold reserve, 316
Gordon, Bernard, 276, 286
Graduate, 208
Graecisms, 237
Granada, 75
Gratz College, 75
Gravity, specific, 342
Greeks, From the, to Darwin, 406
Gregory IX, 83;
of Nazianzen, 24
Gruel, 131
Guadalquivir, 93
Guerini, 315
Guimarus II, 143
Guiscard, 145
Gurlt, 29, 48, 109, 139, 156, 219, 236, 239, 244, 248, 259, 312, 329, 331
Guy de Chauliac, 16, 208, 229, 270, 275, 232, 422
=H=
Haeser, 61
Haliography, 376
Hallam, 85
Hamilton, Sir Wm., 407
Harnack, 25, 26, 382, 392
Haroun al-Raschid, 74
Harvey, 166, 209, 355
Harun al-Raschid, 56, 112
Headache, 42
Hegel, 407
_Hegira_, 170
Hegius, 345, 361
Heidelberg, 345
Helena, 24
Heloise, 189
Hemicrania, 42
Hemoptyses, 45
Heraclius, 54
Hermondaville, 264
Hernia, 298;
radical cure of, 299
Herophilus, 221, 384
Hierakas, 26
Hildegarde, 190
Hippocrates, 13, 91, 99, 117, 266, 385, 429
"Histoire des Femmes Medecins," 195
Historia Tripartita, 429
History of the Inductive Sciences, 410
Hobart, 393
Hobeisch, 58
Hollanduses, 358
Homer, 375, 391
Honein Ben Ischak, 57
Honein Ben Ishac, 117
Honey, 103
Horae Lucanae, 390
Horace, 267
_Hortus Deliciarum_, 191
Hospitals, 8
Hospitals for children, 25
Hroswitha, 190
Hugh of Lucca, 257
Hugo of Lucca, 245, 267, 273
Humboldt, 412
Huxley, 150, 307, 412
Hydrocephalus, 257
_Hydropikos_, 385
Hydrophobia, 435
Hysteria, 54
=I=
Ibn Sina, 128
Ibn Zeinel-Taberi, 115
Ibn-Zohr, 130
Ignorance, on learned, 340;
grounds of, 409
_Ignorantia, De Docta_, 339
Iliac passion, 279
Iliad, 375
Illustrations, 230;
dental, 331;
first medical, 275
_Incunabula_, 311, 329
Infection, 241
Innocent III, 83;
IV, 83
Insanity, 434
Inspection, 47
Invasion of the barbarians, 26
Isaac Ben Amram, 76
Isaac Ben Emran, 73
Isaac Ben Soliman, 76
Isaac Judaeus, 170, 173
Isagoge, 58
Ishac Ben Honein, 53
Isidore of Seville, St., 113, 431
Israels, A.H., 66
Israeli, 76
=J=
Jacobus de Forlivio, 130
Jacobus de Partibus, 130
Jewish physicians, 7
Johannes Afflacius, 171
Johannesbrod, 102
Johannitius, 57
John Chrysostom, St., 11, 181
John de Vigo, 209
John Masuee, 74
John of Arcoli, 18, 209
John of Gaddesden, 286
Josephus, 29
Joshua Ben Nun, 74
Jude Sabatai, 78
Julian the Apostate, 8, 23
Justinian, 26, 23
=K=
Kant, 407
Kerckringius, 366
Kircher, 366
Koran, 106, 139
Kostaben Luka, 58
Kuehns, 418
=L=
Lactantius, 27
Lancisi, 209
Landau, 67
Lane Lectures, 354
Lanfranc, 16, 209, 245, 260, 267
Laurentian Library, 180
Lead pipe, 239
Leo, 55
Leonardo da Vinci, 360
Leonides, 36
Leoparda, 181
Lewes, 406
Libraries, 6
Life, intellectual, 5
Ligatures, 155;
around the limbs, 54
Lilium Medicinae, 158
Linacre, 209, 360
Lipinska, Dr. Melanie, 195
Livy, 4
Lopez, 82
Love, 373
Lowell, Russell, 371
Lucan, 4, 94, 113
Lucca, 248
Lucretius, 395
Ludwig's angina, 332
Luke, St., 7;
the physican, 8;
supposed inaccuracies, 397
Lupus, 256
=M=
Machine, Flying, 416
Madness, 434
Magna Graecia, 15, 156, 177
Magnet, 269
Magnetism, 404
Mahmoud, 75
Maimonides, 12, 88, 90;
rules of life, 100
Malcorona, 182
Malgaigne, 118, 303, 306
Malpighi, 209
Malta, 97
Man, 95
Mandeville, 264
Mania, 44
Manipulation, surgical, 250
Mantua, 4
_Marsupium cordis_, 147
Martial, 4, 113, 181
Maser Djawah, 72
Matter and form, 351, 417
Matter, indestructibility of, 416
Matthaeus de Gradibus, 130
Matthew Platearius, 134
Mediastinum, 137
_Medica_, 181
Medical, first illustrations, 275
Medicine, legal, 252;
New York Academy of, 223
Melancholia, 44
Mengenberger, 276
Meningitis, 43
Mental influence, 44
"Merchant of Venice, The," 82
Mercuriade, 186
Mesmer, 105
Meteors, 414
Metrodora, 180
Metrorrhagia, 54
Meyer, 413
Michael Angelo, 360
Michael Scot, 134
Microtechnics, 171
Middle meningeal artery, 37
Middleton, 246
Migne, 194
Milan, 206
Milk, bath, 131;
cure, 45
Milman, 84
Ministry of Christ, 390
Miscellany, 124
Modena, 248
Mohammed, 13
Monasteries, 6
Mondeville, 207, 209, 231, 264, 298, 422
Mondino, 202, 209, 245;
career, 232;
myth, 216
Monks' bane, 364
Montaigne, 374
Monte Cassino, 12, 145, 163, 168, 433
Montpellier, 11, 16, 87, 265
Morgagni, 91, 209
Moses, 64
Moses Ben Maimum, 91
=N=
Nain, widow of, 389
Naples, 248
Nature, 47, 77, 378;
in Dante, 418
Neander, 84
Needleholder, 295
Nemesius, 9
Nerve suture, 253, 262
Nestorian, 73, 109
Newton, 351, 355
Nibelungen, 218
Nibelungenlied, 375, 392
Nicaise, 198, 208, 265, 286, 292, 302, 309
Nicerata, 181
Nicholas of Cusa, 19, 337, 344
Nicolaus, Leonicenus, 130
Nobel Prize, 421
_Noli me tangere_, 256
Nosology, 159
Notker Teutonicus, 428
Novelties, medical, 166
Nuremberg eggs, 337
Nursing, 271;
history of, 401
Nutrition per rectum, 130
Nutting, 401
=O=
Observations, 282, 293, 378
Octavius Horatianus, 180
Odyssey, 375
Oil and wine, 387
Old Testament, 63
Omar, 110
Omentum, 250
Operation for hernia, 52
Ophthalmology, 258
Opotherapy, 68
Oppler, 100
_Opus Majus_, 410
_Opus Tertium_, 409
Ordericus Vitalis, 182
Organization of medical education, 141
Oribasius, 8, 38, 117
Origenia, 180
Orthodontia, 318
Osborn, 406
Osler, 257
Ossian, 375
Ovid, 267
Oxygen, 49
=P=
Padua, 4, 16, 232, 248, 328, 345
Pagel, 61, 111, 119, 152, 156, 157, 172, 208, 216, 245, 264, 277, 286, 330
Palmyra, 109
Palpation, 47
Pandects, 38;
of Haroun, 72
Paracelsus, 2, 254, 379
Paracentesis, 122, 365
Paradiso, 215
Pare, Ambroise, 254, 303
Paris, 141
Paris, Paulin, 310
Passavant, Jean de, 260
Passow, 386
Pasquier, 200
Paul of AEgina, 10, 50, 117, 122, 125, 317, 331
Paulus AEginetus, 29, 38
Pavia, 248
Percussion, 19
Peregrinus, 404
Pergamos, 135, 385
Perineum, torn, 184
Persecutions, Christian, 4;
of Jews, 83
Persius, 4
Perugia, 248
Perugino, 360
Peter of Spain, 300
Petrarch, 306
Petrus de Argentaria, 290
Phagedenic ulcer, 35
Pharmacy, 207
Pharmacologist, 354
Phenicia, 314
Philip Augustus, 150
Philosopher's stone, 369, 412
Philosopher's keys, 376
Phrenitis, 43
Physicians and surgery, 267
Physiology, history of, 354, 414
Piacenza, 16, 232, 248
Pilcher, Dr. Lewis, 215, 216, 219, 229
Pinturicchio, 360
Pisa, 16, 248
Pitard, Jean, 265, 269
Plagiarism, medieval, 174
Plague, 305
Platearius I, 183
Plato, 267, 292
Pleurisy, 45
Pliny, 4, 113
Polyps, 31, 118, 258, 330;
nasal, 126, 258
Pool, 93
Pope Boniface VIII, 288
Pope Clement VI, 300
Pope Innocent VI, 300
Pope John XXI, 300, 357
Pope Urban V, 300
Popes and Jews, 80;
and science, 148
_Popular Science Monthly_, 400
Porphyry, 428
Portal, 304
Portio vaginalis hypertrophy, 37
Pouchet, 431
Practice, medical, 15
Preface, 230
Priscian, 180
Probe, 280
Professional spirit, 141
Professione Medicorum, 181
Prohibition of chemistry, 424
Prophylaxis, 47;
perineal, 185
Prudentius, 113
Pseudo-philology, 364
Psycho-analysis, 68
Ptolemy, 73, 384
"Puch der Natur," 275
Pulse, 19, 160
Pure Drug Law, 420
Puschmann, 41, 61, 144, 150
Pus, unnecessary, 255
=Q=
Quackery, 273
Quacks, 371
Quadrivium, 149
Quintilian, 4, 113
=R=
Rab, 69
Rabbi Ishmael, 66
Rabies, 30;
diagnosis of, 263, 435;
treatment, 262
Radio-active elements, 350
Radio-activity, 399
Radium, 350
Ragenifrid, 144
Ramsay, Sir William, 394, 417
Raphael, 360
Rebecca Guarna, 186
Reggio, 248
_Regimen Sanitatis_, 158
Regiomontanus, 360
Religion of healing, 25
Religious scruples, 224
Renaissance, 20, 142
Renan, 132, 314
Respiration rate, 342
Reuchlin, 361
Reynaud, M. Jean, 375
Rhazes, 59, 114, 170, 266, 323, 331;
aphorisms, 116
Richard Coeur de Lion, 98
Richard the Englishman, 276
_Rima glottidis_, 147
Robinson, Dr. Nathaniel, 390
Rodent ulcer, 35
Rogero, 237
Roland, 273
Rolando, 154, 238, 242
Romanes, 405
Roman Empire decadent, 5
Roman patronage, 2
Roman persecutions, 26
Rome, 248
Romoaldus, 134
_Rosa Angliae_, 287
Roth, 288
Rudolph, 82
Ruggero, 237
Ruggiero, 146
Rules of life, 100
Rupertsberg, 192
Rutebeuf, 183
=S=
St. Benedict, 191
St. Brigid, 179
St. Dominic, 215
St. Gall, 433
St. Luke, 381, 382
St. Patrick, 179
St. Peter's Epistle, 398
St. Thomas of Aquin, 352
Saintsbury, 402
Sacrament, 164
Saladin, 90
Salerno, 11, 13, 78, 141, 236, 273
Salicet, 209, 247
Salvation, 25
Samarcand, 111
Sanctions of belief, 105
Sanitary science, 64
Santa Sophia, 10, 40
Saracenus, 171
Saragossa, 75
Scholarship, 136
Scholastica, 178, 191
Science, biological, 413;
popular medieval, 425;
medieval, 400
Scientia Experimentalis, 410
Scotus, 134
Scribonius Largus, 180
_Scrobiculus cordis_, 137
Sea sponge, 151
Semiotics, 159
Seneca, 4, 94, 113, 267
Serapion, 170
Servetus, 2
Seville, 75
Shakespeare, 82
Shawdepisse, 280
Shower bath, 172
Sidon, 314
Sienna, 248
Sighart, 413
Signorelli, 360
Silver Age, 13, 113
Sintheim, 344
Small-pox, 119
Snake bites, 263
Snare, 126
Socrates, 292, 429
Solomon, 98
Sozomen, 429
Spagyrist, 369
Spallanzani, 209
Spanish peninsula, 4
Speculum, 331
_Sphudron_, 386
Sprengel, 77
Standards of medical education, 420
Static experiments, 340
Steno, 366
_Studia generalia_, 203
Studies, post-graduate, 283
Superstitions, 21
Surgeon, as teacher, 261;
qualities of, 261, 305;
good, 268;
perfect, 268;
training of, 267
Surgery, aseptic, 245;
antiseptic, 255;
dishonor of, 424;
epoch of, 281;
Genito-urinary, 126, 234;
history of, 273;
of the mind, 270;
quality of, 305;
union in, 249, 260
Surgical, meddlesomeness, 300;
nursing, 271
Sydenham, 91
Sylvester II, 134
Sylvius, 2
Symmachus, 428
Synanche, 332
=T=
Taddeo Alderotti, 212, 215, 232
Talmud, 11, 63, 65, 94
Tarsus, 135
Tartar, 321
Tattooing, 31
Taxes, 298
Technique, Surgical, 125
Teleology, 27, 95
Tell's apple, 364
Tenaculum, 258, 330
Terence, 4, 190
Tertullian, 27
Testament, Old, 11
Thaddaeus Florentinus, 130
Thecla, 180
Theodoret, 27
Theodoric, 245, 252, 267, 273, 429
Theodosia, 10, 181
Theodotos, 26
"Theology and Science," 419
Theophilus, 54, 55
"Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries," 433
Thomas Cantimprato, 433
Thompson, 358
Thorax, 295
Thymol, 50
Titian, 360
Toledo, 76, 170
Tonnerre Hospital, 296
Tonsils, 29
Tooth powder, 321;
replacement of, 322
Tornamira, 312
Toscanelli, 360
Toulouse, 286
Tours, 433
=U=
Ugo da Lucca, 251, 295
Ugo Senesis, 130
Ulcer, eroding, 256
Union by first intention, 254
_Universitas_, 203
Universities, ecclesiastical, 210;
medieval, 411
University of Bologna, 142;
of Paris, 887, 142, 199;
of Salerno, 142
University man, typical, 307
Urine, 19
Urination, difficulty of, 334
Uvula, 118, 259, 332;
removal of, 333
=V=
Valentine, 20, 349;
bibliography, 376
Valesco de Taranta, 312
Van Helmont, 365
Varices, 34
Varicose veins, 127
Varignana, 130
Varolius, 2, 209, 327
Vasari, 360
_Velum Palati_, 137
Venerable Bede, 432
Venesection, 104
Vercelli, 248
Verneuil, 303
Verney, Francis, 311
Verona, 248
Vesalius, 2, 120, 204, 209, 233, 289, 327
Vicenza, 16, 232, 248
Victoria, 180
Vigo, John De, 334
Villani, 313
Vincent of Beauvais, 433
Virchow, 297
Virgil, 4
Vitality, natural, 116
Volta, 209
Von Leyden, 336
=W=
"Warfare of Science and Religion," 434
Washington's hatchet, 364
Water clock, 341
Water in the ear, 48
Watering places, 47
Wenceslaus, Emperor, 424
Whewell, 410
White, Pres., 424
Wine for wounds, 187
William of Auvergne, 108
William of Briscia, 268
William of Salicet, 245, 256, 267
William the Conqueror, 145
Wimpheling, 361
Wives as nurses, 272
Women professors, 15
Women physicians, 177, 179
Wood hound, 435
Wounds, penetrating, 250;
adhesion, 253;
gunshot, 334;
of intestines, 250;
wine and oil, 387
Wurtz, 254
=Y=
Yahia Ben Masoviah, 74
Yard, 280
Yperman, 276
Ypres, 276
=Z=
Zedkias, 78
Zenobia, 109
Zooelogy, 418
* * * * *
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and it should be made accessible to every reader capable of taking a
serious interest in the wonderful phenomena of nature."
_Electrical World_: "Aside from the intrinsic interest of its matter,
the book is delightful to read owing to the graceful literary style
common to both authors. One not having the slightest acquaintance with
electrical science will find the book of absorbing interest as treating
in a human way and with literary art the life work of some of the
greatest men of modern times; and, moreover, in the course of his
reading he will incidentally obtain a sound knowledge of the main
principles upon which almost all present-day electrical development is
based. It is a shining example of how science can be popularized without
the slightest twisting of facts or distortion of perspective. Electrical
readers will find the book also a scholarly treatise on the evolution of
electrical science, and a most refreshing change from the 'engineering
English' of the typical technical writer."
=EDUCATION, HOW OLD THE NEW--A Series of Lectures and Addresses on
Phases of Education in the Past Which Anticipate Most of Our Modern
Advances, by James J. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., Litt. D., K.C.St.G., Dean and
Professor of the History of Medicine and of Nervous Diseases at Fordham
University School of Medicine. Fordham University Press, 1910. 470 pp.
Price, $2.00 net. Postage, 15 cents extra.=
CARDINAL MORAN (Sydney, Australia): "I have to thank you for
the excellent volume 'Education, How Old the New.' The lectures are
admirable, just the sort of reading we want for English readers of the
present day."
_New York Sun_: "It is all bright and witty and based on deep
erudition."
_The North American_ (Philadelphia): "Wide historical research, clear
graphic statement are salient elements of this interesting and
suggestive addition to the modern welter of educational literature."
_Detroit Free Press_: "Full of interesting facts and parallels drawn
from them that afford much material for reflection."
_Chicago Inter-Ocean_: "Incidentally it does away with a number of
popular misconceptions as to education in the Middle Ages and as to
education in the Latin-American countries at a somewhat later time. The
book is written in a straight, unpretentious and interesting style."
_Wilkes-Barre Record_: "The volume is most interesting and shows deep
research bearing the marks of the indefatigable student."
_Pittsburg Post_: "There is no bitterness of controversy and one of the
first things to strike the reader is that the dean of Fordham quotes
from nearly everybody worth while, Protestant or Catholic, poetry,
biography, history, science or what not."