A Dictionary of the History of Medicine
A Dictionary of the History of Medicine

Author: Anton Sebastian

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 1016

ISBN-13: 1351469991

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This is a unique, extensively illustrated dictionary of terms, people, events, and dates spanning the entire history of medicine. It is a monumental work of scholarship totaling some 700 double-column pages with a large number of rare and exceptional illustrations from many original sources painstakingly compiled over years of far-searching inquiry involving more than 5,000 books and hundreds of journals. It is a major resource of hard-to-find information about notable medical figures, instruments, conditions, procedures, and dates and a storehouse of captivating anecdotes and background material. The book contains a wealth of material for concise historical introductions to a broad range of subjects and is the sine qua non authority on both well and little known facts of medical history. With this single volume-an unprecedented tour de force representing more than 7,000 hours of exhaustive research-clinicians and researchers from all fields of medicine can quickly and easily find authoritative, detailed definitions and descriptions, with dates, of medical terms and of the people and events contributing to the development of medicine from earliest times to the present day. The entries range widely from such as abacterial pyuria to zygote, including Latin and Greek origins of terms, compact biographies with dates, eponymic information of all kinds, and rarely seen drawings and photographs of antique medical instruments and little-known conditions.

A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry
A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry

Author: Edward Shorter

Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0195176685

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This is the first historical dictionary of psychiatry. It covers the subject from autism to Vienna, and includes the key concepts, individuals, places, and institutions that have shaped the evolution of psychiatry and the neurosciences. An introduction puts broad trends and international differences in context, and there is an extensive bibliography for further reading. Each entry gives the main dates, themes, and personalities involved in the unfolding of the topic. Longer entries describe the evolution of such subjects as depression, schizophrenia, and psychotherapy. The book gives ready reference to when things happened in psychiatry, how and where they happened, and who made the main contributions. In addition, it touches on such social themes as "women in psychiatry," "criminality and psychiatry," and "homosexuality and psychiatry." A comprehensive index makes immediately accessible subjects that do not appear in the alphabetical listing. Among those who will appreciate this dictionary are clinicians curious about the origins of concepts they use in their daily practices, such as "paranoia," "selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors" (SSRIs), or "tardive dyskinesia"; basic scientists who want ready reference to the development of such concepts as "neurotransmitters," "synapse," or "neuroimaging"; students of medical history keen to situate the psychiatric narrative within larger events, and the general public curious about illnesses that might affect them, their families and their communities-or readers who merely want to know about the grand chain of events from the asylum to Freud to Prozac. Bringing together information from the English, French, German, Italian, and Scandinavian languages, the Dictionary rests on an enormous base of primary sources that cover the growth of psychiatry through all of Western society.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine

Author: Mark Jackson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2011-08-25

Total Pages: 691

ISBN-13: 0199546495

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In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explore medical developments and trends in writing history according to period, place, and theme.

A Dictionary of Medical Terms in Galen
A Dictionary of Medical Terms in Galen

Author: Richard Durling

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9004377301

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Galen (2nd century A.D.), after Hippocrates the most distinguished physician of antiquity, has left us numerous medical works to which no complete Greek-English dictionary or concordance was available until now. This is a dictionary of ancient Greek medical terms as culled from Galen's voluminous works, covering all medical fields: diet, drugs and surgery. It contains approximately 3,000 Greek words and 119,000 citations. Particularly rich is the vocabulary of plant names, which sometimes defy identification. Dealing with terms from the fields of anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacy and surgery this book is essential for the study of medical Greek and will be of interest to both historians of ancient medicine and to classical philologists.

A Dictionary of Medicine and the Allied Sciences
A Dictionary of Medicine and the Allied Sciences

Author: Alexander Duane

Publisher: Arkose Press

Published: 2015-10-18

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 9781344829090

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A Dictionary of Medicine, Designed for Popular Use
A Dictionary of Medicine, Designed for Popular Use

Author: Alexander Macaulay

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-10

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 9780656255207

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Excerpt from A Dictionary of Medicine, Designed for Popular Use: Containing an Account of Diseases and Their Treatment, Including Those Most Frequent in Warm Climates There are many situations where no practitioner is at hand and where, on the occurrence of accident or disease, the treat ment of the sufferer must, in the first instance, be direct ed by the good sense and kindness of his neighbours. Such situations are to be met with in thinly-peopled districts, in retired villages, in foreign settlements, and commercial out posts; where the first who are asked to give advice to their dependants or companions, will be the clergyman or the landlord, the supercargo or the shipmaster. To all these, some knowledge of diseases and their treatment, will prove a valuable acquisition. To render the Work useful to such persons, I have been as sparing as possible of technical terms; and if any words or phrases sometimes occur not sufficiently adapted for com mon readers, they will generally be found explained in their alphabetical order. By adopting this arrangement, I have not only rendered the Work easily consulted on any disease, medicine, or circumstance of diet and regimen, but have been enabled occasionally to devote an article to some symptom deserving of particular consideration. Though it could not with propriety have so much space allotted to it in the de scription of a disease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Dictionary of Medicine, Designed for Popular Use. Containing an Account of Diseases and Their Treatment, Including Those Most Frequent in Warm Clima
A Dictionary of Medicine, Designed for Popular Use. Containing an Account of Diseases and Their Treatment, Including Those Most Frequent in Warm Clima

Author: Alexander Macaulay

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2018-02-24

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 9781378669334

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.