1. Medical Thought in its Historical Evolution
2. The Origin of Medicine in Prehistory and in Primitive Peoples. Empiric, Demonistic, Animistic, Magic Medicine
3. Mesopotamian Medicine. Magic and Priestly Medicine
4. Old Egyptian Medicine. Priestly Medicine, Origins of the Philosophic Concept
5. The Medicine of the People of Israel. Theurgic Medicine. Canonical Codifications of Sanitary Laws
6. The Medicine of Ancient Persia and India. Systematic Theories
7. Far Eastern Medicine. Systems of Scholastic Medicine
8. The Medicine of Ancient Greece. The Temples and Cult of Aesculapius – The Greco-Italian Schools – The Dawn of Scientific Medicine
9. The Golden Age of Greek Medicine. Hippocratic Medicine – A Biologic and Synthetic Concept
10. Post-Hippocratic Medicine. The Alexandrian School. Beginnings of Anatomical and Physiological Studies
11. Roman Medicine. The Latin Concept of Medicine and Sanitary Legislation
12. The Decadence of Medical Science. Christian Dogmatic Medicine. The Byzantine School
13. Arabian Medicine. Lay Medicine. Renaissance of Classical Doctrines
14. Medicine in the Christian West During the First Centuries of the Middle Ages. From Monastic Medicine to the Lay Medicine of Salerno
15. Medicine in the Later Middle Ages. The Universities and Humanism. The Precursors of the Renaissance
16. Renaissance. The Revival of Anatomy and Physiology. Biological and Clinical Trends
17. The Seventeenth Century. Dawn of Scientific Liberty. Biological and Experimental Trends in Medicine
18. The Eighteenth Century. From Speculative Systems to Pathological and Clinical Concepts
19. First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Experimental and Biological Concepts. The Cell Doctrine
20. The Second Half of the Nineteenth Century. Clinical Medicine Based on the Fundamental Sciences. Growth of the Specialities
21. The Twentieth Century
Bibliography
Index of Subjects
Index of Persons
Biography
Arturo Castiglioni
