CONTENTS 



Page 



Acknowledgments v 



Chapter 



I. Introduction 3 



II. Primitive Concepts Regarding the Dead 9 



III. Concepts Regarding Dead Among Ancient Civiliza- 



tions-3000 to 1000 B.C 20 



A. China 20 



B. Japan 22 



C. Egypt 23 



D. Babylonia 28 



E. India 29 



F. Greece 33 



G. The Romans ! 36 



IV. Pre- Alexandrian Anatomy- 1000 to 300 B.C 38 



V. The Alexandrian School of Anatomy— 332 B.C. to A.D. 



200 44 



VI. Claudius Galen (A.D. 130-200) and His Influence on 



Anatomy 51 



VII. Anatomy in the Middle Ages-A.D. 400 to 1400 58 



A. The Role of the Church 58 



B. Psychology of the Times 59 



C. The Arabs and the Reawakening 61 



D. The Universities of the Middle Ages 62 



1. The University of Salerno 62 



2. The University of Bologna 63 



3. The University of Montpellier 66 



4. General Information on Other Uni- 



versities 67 



