Medicine in seventeenth century England : a symposium held at UCLA in honor of C.D. O'Malley / edited by Allen G. Debus.

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[1974]
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Berkeley : University of California Press, [1974]

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xiii, 485 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes

"Sponsored by the Department of Medical History at the University of California, Los Angeles and supported by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation"

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references

Contents

Charles Donald O'Malley : vita by Lynn White, jr. (pages 1-5) -- The transformation of Galenism by Lester S. King (pages 7-31) -- Paracelsian medicine : Noah Biggs and the problem of medical reform by Allen G. Debus (pages 33-48) -- Surgery by Leo M. Zimmerman (pages 49-69) -- Pathology at mid-century : a reassessment of Thomas Willis and Thomas Sydenham by L.J. Rather (pages 71-112) -- Clinical medicine by Alfred White Franklin (pages 113-145) -- Physiology by Kenneth D. Keele (pages 147-181) -- Materialistic and neoplatonic influences in embryology by Charles W. Bodemer (pages 183-213) -- The beginnings of endocrinology by Hans H. Simmer (pages 215-235) -- Pediatrics by Samuel X. Radbill (pages 237-282) -- Medicine and the rise of statistics by James H. Cassedy (pages 282-312) -- Quackery by L.R.C. Agnew (pages 313-325) -- Cambridge medicine by A.H.T. Robb-Smith (pages 327-369) -- Oxford medicine by H.M. Sinclair (pages 371-391) -- Anatomical studies at Oxford and Cambridge by Frances Valadez (pages 393-420) -- Medicine and the Royal Society by A. Rupert Hall (pages 421-452) -- C.D. O'Malley : bibliography by Martha Teach Gnudi (pages 453-461)

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