Complete Overview of the History of Medicine in Tabular Form

§. 5.

The general history of medicine, i.e., the coherent narrative of the fates of all (§. 1.) mentioned individual subjects of medical science, must be presented completely impartially and in chronological order; yet in such a way that the fates of the science are represented in connection with their causes and effects, and the chronological sequence is thus subordinated to that general order.

§. 6.

Excellent aids for medical literary history are several manuals of the general history of medicine, among which some recently appeared ones distinguish themselves by their special value. Furthermore, however, those which treated the special history of medicine in certain ages and special periods or among individual nations, or individual disciplines, inventions, and sects belonging to medicine, also deserve to be named and judged as important sources for the history of medicine. Even that which is contained in the monographs of individual diseases and medicaments about the origin and spread of the former and about the discovery and use of the latter necessarily belongs here. The following are the most excellent writings to be mentioned here.

1. For the general history of medicine.
   Güntheri Andernacensis de veteri et nova medicina on old and new medicine, Basil. 1571. Fol.
   Barchusen historia medicinae, in qua pleraque medicorum ratiocinia — ab exordio medicinae usque ad nostra tempora pertractantur history of medicine, in which most of the reasoning of physicians is treated from the beginning of medicine up to our times. Traj. ad Rh. 1723. 4.
   Lange historia medica in Ej. opp. omn. ed. Rivini medical history in his collected works edited by Rivinus Fol. 1704.
   Histoire de la medecine ou l'on voit l'origine et les progrès de cet art. avec fig. par Dan le Clerc History of medicine in which one sees the origin and progress of this art, with figures by Daniel Le Clerc, Genev. 1696. 12. enlarged Amsterdam 1723. 4. III. part à la Haye 1729 4.
   Freind histoire de la Medecine depuis Galien jusqu'au commencement du seizième siècle trad. par Et. Coulet history of medicine from Galen until the beginning of the sixteenth century translated by Etienne Coulet. 4. Leid. 1727. The original appeared in London 1725 in the English language.