Introduction.

The history of medicine contains a narrative of the origin, the changes, and the fates of all parts of medical study. It is therefore not only a history of the methods that have been in use at all times to prevent, judge, and treat diseases (of dietetics, pathology, therapy, and surgery), but it must also indicate the fates of those sciences which, while not belonging to the actual healing arts, nevertheless constitute an essential and necessary part of medical study (of natural history, anatomy, physiology, physics, chemistry, and pharmacy).

In order to learn the history of medicine properly, knowledge of medicine, of world, ethnic, and human history, of general literary history, and of the history of philosophy is necessary, and the study of the most excellent writers on these subjects is required. In the presentation of the history of medicine, the remarks from those sciences necessary for the explanation of its fates must also be cited. The following writings on world, ethnic, and human history, on general literary history, and on the history of philosophy