Holistic Healing
Evolution of Modern Medicine
Sir William Osler · narrated by LibriVox volunteers
7h 19m$1.99
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The whole sweep of healing, told by its greatest teacher. In these Yale lectures, Sir William Osler traces medicine from Egyptian papyri and Greek temples through alchemy, anatomy, and the microscope, with the storyteller's relish he was loved for. You will discover how slowly, strangely, and heroically humanity learned to understand the body. A masterclass in the history of an idea. Sample the first lecture and take the grand tour.
Inside this audiobook
28 chapters
- 1Preface8m
- 2Chapter I — ORIGIN OF MEDICINE, Introduction16m
- 3Chapter I — ORIGIN OF MEDICINE, Origin of Medicine6m
- 4Chapter I — ORIGIN OF MEDICINE, Egyptian Medicine17m
- 5Chapter I — ORIGIN OF MEDICINE, Assyrian Medicine and Babylonian Medicine21m
- 6Chapter I — ORIGIN OF MEDICINE, Hebrew Medicine6m
- 7Chapter I — ORIGIN OF MEDICINE, Chinese and Japanese Medicine10m
- 8Chapter II — GREEK MEDICINE, Introduction20m
- 9Chapter II — GREEK MEDICINE, Asklepios14m
- 10Chapter II — GREEK MEDICINE, Hippocrates and the Hippocratic Writings31m
- 11Chapter II — GREEK MEDICINE, Alexandrian School8m
- 12Chapter II — GREEK MEDICINE, Galen15m
- 13Chapter III — MEDIAEVAL MEDICINE, Introduction7m
- 14Chapter III — MEDIAEVAL MEDICINE, South Italian School, Byzantine Medicine8m
- 15Chapter III — MEDIAEVAL MEDICINE, Arabian Medicine23m
- 16Chapter III — MEDIAEVAL MEDICINE, The Rise of the Universities20m
- 17Chapter III — MEDIAEVAL MEDICINE, Mediaeval Medical Studies, Mediaeval Practice3m
- 18Chapter III — MEDIAEVAL MEDICINE, Astrology and Divination14m
- 19Chapter IV — RENAISSANCE AND RISE OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY, Introduction10m
- 20Chapter IV — RENAISSANCE AND RISE OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY, Paracelsus26m
- 21Chapter IV — RENAISSANCE AND RISE OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY, Vesalius30m
- 22Chapter IV — RENAISSANCE AND RISE OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY, Harvey30m
- 23Chapter V — THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN MEDICINE, Introduction Part 122m
- 24Chapter V — THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN MEDICINE, Introduction Part 224m
- 25Chapter V — THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN MEDICINE, Internal Secretions, Chemistry9m
- 26Chapter VI — RISE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, Introduction10m
- 27Chapter VI — RISE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, Sanitation29m
- 28Chapter VI — RISE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, Tuberculosis4m
