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From Hippocrates to Virchow - Reflections on Human Disease
by James Byers, MD
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Table of Contents
Foreward
Introduction
The Hippocratic Oath
Part 1: Health versus Disease
1. Plato: Body and Mind in Health and Disease
2. Hippocrates: Profession or Trade Guild?
3. Aristotle: Biological Perspective on Man
4. Galen: The Physician, a Philosopher?
5. Harvey: Observations are important
Part 2: The Nature of Disease
6. Plato and Hobbes: Analogies between the Body and the State
7. Aristotle: General Observations on Health and Disease
8. Hippocrates: We are What We Eat
9. Galen: Hot versus Cold
10. Avicenna: Pneuma---the Vehicle of the Psychic Faculties
11. Maimonides: Gluttony and Sloth---Enemies of Health
12. Harvey: Internal Organs are Altered in Disease!
Part 3: The Categories of Disease
13. Plato: Pain and Pleasure, Corruption and Inflammation
14. Hippocrates: Seasons, Winds, and Skull Fractures
Part 4: The Natural History of Disease
15. The Old Testament: The Dreaded Skin Disease
16. Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War and the Plague of Athens
17. Hippocrates: Prognosis
18. Lucretius: Mind, Body and Miasm
Part 5: The Causes of Disease
19. Old Testament, Apocrypha, and New Testament:
Punishment and Exorcism
20. Sophocles: Blood Debt
21. Herodotus: Preventive Purging and Hippocrates Revisited
22. Plato: Disorderly Excesses and Therapeutic Nihilism
23. Aristotle: Blood and Fat
24. Hippocrates: Diet, Climate, and Cold Phlegm
25. Galen: Causes of Edema
26. Plotinus: Causes from Cure?
27. Aquinas: Gluttons Beware!
28. Chaucer and Montaigne: The Doctor and His Critics
29. Harvey: Cacodemons and Cacochemy
30. Virchow: The Little Giant of Pathology
Conclusion
References
Index
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