The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art by Edward Berdoe

BOOK VI.

_THE AGE OF SCIENCE._ I. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.—PHYSICAL SCIENCE ALLIED TO MEDICINE 443 Exit the Disease-demon.—Medical Systems again.—Homœopathy.—The Natural Sciences.—Chemistry, Electricity, Physiology, Anatomy, Medicine and Pathology.—Psychiatry.—Surgery.—Ophthalmology. II. MEDICAL REFORMS 464 Discovery of Anæsthetics.—Medical Literature.—Nursing Reform.—History of the Treatment of the Insane. III. THE GERM THEORY OF DISEASE 471 The Disease-demon reappears as a Germ.—Phagocytes.—Ptomaines.—Lister’s Antiseptic Surgery.—Sanitary Science or Hygiene.—Bacteriologists. —Faith Cures.—Experimental Physiology and the Latest System of Medicine. APPENDIX. ON SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT MINERALS USED IN MEDICINE 486