1. The evolution of medicine.
Cladean and Persian medicine.
6. Hipprocates, and the Hippocratic collection.
7. The direct successors of Hippocrates.
The school of Alexandria.
Erasistratus and Herophilus.
8. The school of empirics.
Asclepiades: his medical system.
The eclectics and compilers.
Caelius Aurelianus and his "De morbis acutis et chronicis libri VIII".
12. The practice of medicine at Rome.
14. The medical schools of Salerno and Montpellier.
15. Medicine in the XVIth century.
16. Physiology, anatomy, pathology, nosology, therapeutics, and surgery in the XVIth century.
17. The principal doctrines governing medicine in the XVIIth century.
18. The anatomy, physiology, pathology, nosography, and therapeutics of the XVIIth century.
19. The principal medical doctrines of the XVIIIth century.
20. The doctrine of irritability, the brunonian theory and naturalism.
21. Organicism and vitalism.
Concluding chapter: A brief survey of the evolution of therapeutics.
