内容简介：
Buck breaks the history of Medicine into three parts including Ancient Medicine, Mediaeval Medicine and Medicine During the Renaissance. Partial Contents: Development of the Science and Art of Medicine; Oriental Medicine; Hippocrates the Great; Hospitals and Monasteries in the Middle Ages; Brief History of the Allied Sciences-Pharmacy, Chemistry and Balneotherapeutics; The Founders of Human Anatomy and Physiology; Chemistry and Experimental Pharmacology; Surgery in Germany and Switzerland during the fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; and Surgery in Great Britain during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.