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Vol. XXXVIII. No.! 



Friday, December 5, 1913 



Single Copieb, 15 Cts. 

 Annual Sobbokiption, J5.00 



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Garrison^s History of Medicke 



This book presents the history of medicine from the earliest ancient and 

 primitive times, on through Egyptian medicine, Sumerian and Oriental 

 medicine, Greek Medicine, the Byzantine period ; the Mohammedan and 

 Jewish periods, the Mediaeval period, the period of the Eenaissance, the 

 revival of learning and the Eeformation ; the Seventeenth Century (the 

 age of individual scientific endeavor), the Eighteenth Century (the age of 

 theories and systems), the Nineteenth Century (the beginning of organized 

 advancement of science) , the Twentieth Century (the beginning of organized 

 preventive medicine). There are also Appendices covering Medical Chro- 

 nologjr (data on important diseases, drugs, therapeutic procedures, surgical 

 operations). Bibliographic Notes for Collateral Eeading, and Test Questions. 



The illustrations will stimulate the reader's interest in thie picturesque as- 

 pects of medicine and in the personalities of its great leaders. T^e biogra- 

 phies are confined to the important facts and to interesting personal traits. 

 Each period is followed by a survey of its social and cultural phases. 



A FEV/ FEATURES 



All the important facts in medical history 

 in compact form 



The only work in TThich the modern period 

 is exhaustively treated to date. One half 

 the volnme deals with the Nineteenth and 

 Twentieth Centuries. 



A Mogrnpliic dictionary of the men who have 

 "done things," arranged alphabetically. 



An album of medical portraits, many of 

 them rare. f 



Full hibliographie references to all the dis- 

 coveries and experiments of importance. 

 A very complete medical chronology (data 

 on important diseases, drugs, therapeutic 

 procedures, surgical operations) . 



A series of lest questions. 



Octavo of 763 pages, with many illustrationg. By Fielding H. Garrison, M.D., Principal ABSistant 

 Librarian, Surgeon General's Office, Washington, D. C; and Editor " Index Medicus." 



W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANY Philadelphia and London 



