6I. Anger of Offended Demons.
74The Sweating Sickness.
7II. Witchcraft as a Cause of Disease.
75Tarantism.
8III. Offence to the Dead as a Cause of Disease.
76CHAPTER IX. MEDICINE IN ANCIENT MEXICO AND PERU.
9CHAPTER IV. MAGIC AND SORCERY IN THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE.
77Influenza.
10CHAPTER V. PRIMITIVE MEDICINE.
78Legal Recognition of Medical Practitioners.
11CHAPTER VI. PRIMITIVE SURGERY.
79The Sweating Sickness.
12CHAPTER VII. UNIVERSALITY OF THE USE OF INTOXICANTS.
80The Royal College of Physicians of London Established.
13CHAPTER VIII. CUSTOMS CONNECTED WITH PREGNANCY AND CHILD-BEARING.
81Legal Medicine.
14CHAPTER I. EGYPTIAN MEDICINE.
82CHAPTER II. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
15CHAPTER II. JEWISH MEDICINE.
83Materia Medica.
16CHAPTER III. THE MEDICINE OF CHALDÆA, BABYLONIA, AND ASSYRIA.
84Sympathetical Cures.
17CHAPTER IV. THE MEDICINE OF THE HINDUS.
85CHAPTER IV. BATHS AND MINERAL WATERS.
18Japanese Medicine.
86Comparative Witchcraft.
19CHAPTER VI. THE MEDICINE OF THE PARSEES.
87Law against Sorcery.
20Gods of Medicine.
88Magic and Medicine.
21The Medicine of Homer.
89Magic in Virgil and Horace.
22The Temples of Æsculapius.
90Images of Wax, etc., in Sorcery.
23The Early Ionic Philosophers.
91Knots.
24The School of the Pythagoreans at Crotona.
92White Magic.
25Greek Theories of Disease.
93Black Magic.
26Schools of the Asclepiades.
94The Evil Eye.
27The Oath.
95Superstitions connected with Death and the Grave.
28The Law.
96Teeth Worms.
29The Dogmatic School.
97Disease Transference.
30The School of Alexandria.
98Antidotes.
31School of the Empirics.
99The Doctrine of Signatures.
32The Scythians.
100The Great Schools of Medical Theory.
33Greek Medical Literature.
101Physicians.
34School of the Methodists.
102Hospitals.
35Greek and Roman Pharmacy.
103Mesmerism.
36The Sect of the Pneumatists.
104Surgeons.
37The Sect of the Eclectics
105Obstetricians.
38Influence of Christianity
106Medical Systems.
39Ancient Surgical Instruments.
107The Natural Sciences.
40Gnostic and Christian Amulets.
108Chemists.
41Herbs, Animals, etc., as Amulets.
109Electricians.
42Knots as Charms.
110Anthropology.
43Precious Stones as Charms.
111Philosophers.
44Signatures.
112Anatomists and Biologists.
45Numbers.
113Physicians and Pathologists.
46Girdles.
114Brain and Nerve Specialists.
47Spittle.
115Surgeons.
48Talismans.
116Gynæcologists.
49Scripts.
117Anatomy in England.
50Characts.
118French Surgeons.
51Sacred Names as Charms.
119German Surgeons.
52Stolen Property as a Charm.
120American Surgeons.
53Medicine of the Druids.
121Ophthalmic Surgeons.
54Medicine of the Teutons.
122Conservative Surgery.
55Medicine of the Welsh.
123Discovery of Anæsthetics.
56Medical Maxims.
124Medical Literature.
57The Caliphs.
125Nursing Reform.
58Baghdad.
126The Treatment of Insanity.
59The Great Arabian Physicians.
127The Phagocyte Theory.
60The Origin of Chemistry.
128Ptomaines.
61School of Montpellier.
129Lister’s Antiseptic Surgery.
62Divorce of Medicine from Surgery.
130Sanitary Science.
63CHAPTER V. THE SCHOOL OF SALERNO.
131Hygiene.
64CHAPTER VI. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
132Bacteriologists and other Scientists.
65Revival of Human Anatomy.
133Experimental Physiology.
66Domestic Medicine in Chaucer’s Time.
134APPENDIX. ON SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT MINERALS USED IN MEDICINE.
67Fellowship of Barbers and Surgeons.
135INDEX.
68The Black Death.