Category:History of medicine

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All human societies have medical beliefs - birth, death, disease and cures are explained in some manner. Historically, throughout the history of medicine world illness has often been attributed to witchcraft, demons or the will of the gods, ideas that still retain some power, even in 'modern' societies, with faith healing and shrines still common.

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Category:History of medicine

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[–] History of medicine

[+] Medical historians

[+] American Civil War medicine

[+] Defunct hospitals

[+] Epidemics

[+] History of anatomy

[+] History of ancient medicine

[+] History of cosmetics

[+] History of mental health

[+] History of neuroscience

[+] Humorism

[+] Islamic medicine

[+] Medical museums

[+] Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine

[+] Obsolete medical theories

[+] Louis Pasteur

[+] Medicine timelines

[+] Traditional medicine

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Subcategories

This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 17 total.

Medical historians A American Civil War medicine D Defunct hospitals E Epidemics H History of anatomy

H cont. History of ancient medicine History of cosmetics History of mental health History of neuroscience Humorism M Islamic medicine

M cont. Medical museums N Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine O Obsolete medical theories P Louis Pasteur

Pages in category "History of medicine"

The following 185 pages are in this category, out of 244 total. Updates to this list can occasionally be delayed for a few days.

* History of medicine Prehistoric medicine Medical Renaissance 1 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak A Abderhalden reaction Anaesthetic vaporiser The Anatomy of Melancholy History of anatomy Apocroustic Apophlegmatism Apothecaries Act 1815 Apothecaries' system Apothecary Armand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet, Marques of Puységur Archibald Arnott Articella Artificial induction of immunity History of aspirin Avicenna Claudius Aymand B Bulletin of the History of Medicine Caspar Bartholin the Elder Thomas Bartholin Benjamin Bell Giacomo Berengario da Carpi Jacopo Berengario da Carpi Bezoar Bezoardicum Bimaristan History of bipolar disorder Joseph Black Emily Blackwell Charles Blagden Alfred Blalock Bloodletting Book of Assaf Vital Brazil Sir Lauder Brunton, 1st Baronet Bruntsfield Hospital Robert Burton (scholar) Byzantine medicine C Cadmia John Caius Health care in Canada Myrtelle Canavan The Canon of Medicine Louis R. Caplan Cargile membrane Catagmatic Catholicon (electuary) Peter Chamberlen Jean-Martin Charcot William Cheselden Chirurgia magna Clinical trials with surprising outcomes Joseph Thomas Clover Clyssus Coeliac passion Tobias Cohn Julius Friedrich Cohnheim Collyrium

C cont. Realdo Colombo Gardner Quincy Colton Confection of hyacinth Constantine the African Cucupha Harvey Cushing Cyprane D De humani corporis fabrica The Demon in the Freezer Diachylon Diarrhodon Diascordium Diasebesten Diasenna Diatragacanth Paul Georges Dieulafoy Discovery of penicillin Natural history of disease Donald Hunter (physician) Jacques Dubois William Henry Duncan E E. Morton Jellinek Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women Edinburgh Seven Henri Ellenberger Charles Estienne Eucrasia Bartolomeo Eustachi F Hieronymus Fabricius Gabriele Falloppio William Farr Fasting girls Fermentation theory Josef E. Fischer Flexner Report Flexnerian medicine John Forbes (physician) G George W. Goler Germ theory of disease Norman Gevitz Gilbertus Anglicus Alessandra Giliani Gray's Anatomy Andreas Gruentzig Guy de Chauliac H Hadacol William Stewart Halsted Harley Street William Harvey Herb garden Heroic medicine Historical mortality rates of puerperal fever History of Alcoholics Anonymous History of abortion History of cancer chemotherapy History of electroconvulsive therapy in the United Kingdom History of emerging infectious diseases History of invasive and interventional cardiology History of iodised salt History of malaria History of neurology History of pathology

H cont. History of poliomyelitis History of psychosurgery in the United Kingdom History of surgery History of wound care Humorism Hunayn ibn Ishaq I Iatrochemistry Iatrophysics Idiosyncrasy J Journal of Medical Biography John Hughlings Jackson Pierre Janet Ernő Jendrassik John of Vigo Juan Valverde de Amusco K Keidel vacuum Kendal Black Drop John Glasgow Kerr Khellin L History of LSD Lai-goa-kho Khan-ho-hak Lam Qua Louis Lasagna Leper colony Liber pantegni List of epidemics List of images and subjects in Gray's Anatomy List of important publications in medicine Lithotomy London School of Medicine for Women Benedict Lust M Ma'aseh Toviyyah Marcello Malpighi Rudolph Matas Medical community of ancient Rome Medieval medicine Joseph Meister Melancholia Mellified Man Memories and Vagaries Cecilia Mettler Mondino de Liuzzi Alexander Monro (primus) Alexander Monro (secundus) Moral insanity Moyse Charas N Ibn al-Nafis History of neuroimaging New Hospital for Women Niccolò Massa Nocebo O Oil of guaiac Onycha Orvietan Osler Library of the History of Medicine William Osler Otto Jirovec P Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh William Hallock Park Louis Pasteur Patent medicine Edith Pechey

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