Excerpt from An Epitome of the History of Medicine: Based Upon a Course of Lectures Delivered in the University of Buffalo The history of medicine has been sadly neglected in our medical schools. The valuable and fruitful lessons which it tells Of what not to do have been completely dis regarded, and in consequence the same gross errors have over and over been repeated. The following pages repre sent an effort to bring the most important facts and events comprised within such history into the compass of a med ical curriculum, and, at the same time, to rehearse them in such manner that the book may be useful and acceptable to the interested layman, to popularize the subject. This effort first took form in a series of lectures given in the Medical Department Of the University of Buffalo. The subject-matter of these lectures has been rearranged, enlarged, and edited, in order to make it more presentable for easy reading and reference. I have also tried, so far as I could in such brief space, to indicate the relationship which has ever existed between medicine, philosophy, natural science, theology, and even belles-zettres. Par ticularly is the history of medicine inseparable from a con sideration Of the various notions and beliefs that have at times shaken the very foundation of Christendom and the Church, and for reasons which appear throughout the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.