The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art
A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries
The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art, published in 1893, is Edward Berdoe's popular history of medicine from earliest times to his own century. He begins with the medicine of tribal peoples, their theories of disease as the work of offended spirits, witches or the dead, their magic, remedies and surgery, the universal use of intoxicants and customs around childbirth. Then come the ancient civilizations, Egypt, the Hebrews, Babylonia and Assyria, India and China; Greek medicine from the temples of Asclepius to Hippocrates and Galen; Celtic, Teutonic and medieval practice; the dawn of scientific medicine; and the age of science. Berdoe, a London physician, wrote for general readers and many of his own colleagues. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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