The Nineteenth Century — The Beginnings of Modern Medicine
Although the early decades of the nineteenth century were a virtual continuation of medical developments in the previous…
Medical History — The Eighteenth Century
It is often thought that the eighteenth century—with its insistence on a rational and scientific approach to all…
Medical History — The Seventeenth Century
Called the “Age of the Scientific Revolution,” the seventeenth century represents a major turning point in the history…
The Renaissance
Even in the desperate depths of the Middle Ages, social, economic, and cultural events were underway which would…
Medieval Medicine: The Dark Ages
The Fall of Rome to the Goths in 476 and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the…
The Greek Physician Galen
The Greek physician Galen (c. 129-c. 200) was probably the most influential writer of all time on medical…
Ancient China
In ancient Chinese cosmology, the universe was created not by divinities but self-generated from the interplay of nature’s…
Hippocrates
Over many centuries, the warrior heroes, the medical craftsmen, and the gymnasts of ancient Greece had accumulated a…
Medicine in Roman Times
Greek medicine after Hippocrates reached a peak in Alexandria and shortly afterward began to infiltrate Rome, which exercised…