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Carl Ortwin Sauer (December 24, 1889 – July 18, 1975) was an American geographer. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California at Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957.
Among other things, the book is known for the discovery of contagious diseases, and the introduction of experimental medicine, [1] clinical trials, [2] randomized controlled trials, [3] [4] efficacy tests, [5] [6] and clinical pharmacology. [7] The work is considered one of the most famous books in the history of medicine. [8]
Gilbertus Anglicus (or Gilbert of England, also known as Gilbertinus; c. 1180 – c. 1250) [1] was a medieval English physician. [1] [2] [3] He is known chiefly for his encyclopedic work, the Compendium of Medicine (Compendium Medicinæ), most probably written between 1230 and 1250. [2]
Works about the history of ... History books about medicine (1 C, 29 P) J. History of medicine journals (15 P) Pages in category "Works about the history of medicine"
Galen produced more work than any author in antiquity, [1] His surviving work runs to over 2.6 million words, and many more of his writings are now lost. [ 1 ] Karl Gottlob Kühn of Leipzig (1754–1840) published an edition of 122 of Galen's writings between 1821 and 1833.
Book VII – Classical operations, such as lithotomy and removal of cataracts. Book VIII – Treatment of dislocations and fractures. De Medicina was known during the Middle Ages up to the 9th or 10th centuries, [9] [10] but was later lost up until the 15th century. [3] It was the first medical book to be printed, in Florence, 1478. [11]
Hildegard of Bingen served as an infirmarian at her first monastery and was well-acquainted with various medical traditions. [2] What was subsequently given the conventional title of Physica, or Medicine, by Johannes Schott [3] is part of Hildegard's lost medical collection, the Subtilitatum diversarum naturarum creaturarum libri novem (Nine Books on the Subtleties of Different Kinds of ...
Kitab al-Hawi or Al-Hawi or Kitāb al-Ḥāwī fī al-ṭibb translated as The Comprehensive Book on Medicine is an extensive medical encyclopedia authored by the Persian polymath Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865–925), commonly known in the West as Rhazes in the 10th century. This monumental work is a compendium of Greek, Syrian ...