Chapter IV: Book III: Greek Medicine

I. THE MEDICINE OF THE GREEKS BEFORE THE TIME OF
HIPPOCRATES 147

Apollo, the God of Medicine.—Cheiron.—Æsculapius.—Artemis.—Dionysus.
—Ammon.—Hermes.—Prometheus.—Melampus.—Medicine of Homer.—Temples of
Æsculapius.—The Early Ionic Philosophers.—Empedocles.—School of
Crotona.—The Pythagoreans.—Grecian Theory of Diseases.—School of
Cos.—The Asclepiads.—The Aliptæ.

II. THE MEDICINE OF HIPPOCRATES AND HIS PERIOD 172

Hippocrates first delivered Medicine from the Thraldom of
Superstition.—Dissection of the Human Body and Rise of
Anatomy.—Hippocrates, Father of Medicine and Surgery.—The
Law.—Plato.

III. POST-HIPPOCRATIC GREEK MEDICINE.—THE SCHOOLS OF
MEDICINE 187

The Dogmatic School.—Praxagoras of Cos.-Aristotle.—The
School of Alexandria.—Theophrastus the Botanist.—The great
Anatomists, Erasistratus and Hierophilus, and the Schools they
founded.—The Empiric School.

IV. THE EARLIER ROMAN MEDICINE 205

Disease-goddesses.—School of the Methodists.—Rufus and
Marinus.—Pliny.—Celsus.

V. LATER ROMAN MEDICINE 227

The Eclectic and Pneumatic Sects.—Galen.—Neo-Platonism.—Oribasius
and Ætius.—Influence of Christianity and the Rise of
Hospitals.—Paulus Ægineta.—Ancient Surgical Instruments.

VI. AMULETS AND CHARMS IN MEDICINE 247

Universality of the Amulet.—Scarabs.—Beads.—Savage Amulets.—Gnostic
and Christian Amulets.—Herbs and Animals as
Charms.—Knots.—Precious Stones.—Signatures.—Numbers.—Saliva.
—Talismans.—Scripts.—Characts.—Sacred Names.—Stolen Goods.