A history of medicine / Henry E. Sigerist.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. Primitive and archaic medicine. I. Introduction : 1. The Historical Approach to Medicine ; The Problems , The Methods , The Writing of Medical History - 2. Disease in Time and Space ; The Antiquity of Disease : Paleopathology , Problems of the History and Geography of Disease -- II. PRIMITIVE MEDICINE : 1. Beginnings, Principles and Patterns - 2. Causation and Nature of Disease - 3. Prevention - 4. The Sick Man - 5. The Medicine Man - 6. Diagnosis and Prognosis - 7. Treatment -- III. ANCIENT EGYPT : 1. The Setting ; Geography , Chronology - 2. Social and Economic Conditions : Daily Life , Labor and Recreation - 3. Magico-religious Medicine - 4. Empirico-rational Medicine ; Medical Literature , Medical Practice , Medical Theory -- MESOPOTAMIA : 1. The Setting ; Geography , Chronology - 2. Social Environment - 3. Principles and Sources of Mesopotamian Medicine - 4. Patient and Physician - 5. Content of Mesopotamian Medicine ; Cause of Disease , Divination , Treatment - 6. Rational Elements in Mesopotamian Medicine -- Appendix I. Histories of Medicine - Appendix II. Source Books of Medical History - Appendix III. Museums of Medical History - Appendix IV. Literature of Paleopathology Since 1930.