Snapper,MEDITATIONS ON MEDICINE AND MEDICAL EDUCATION PAST AND PRESENT,1956

I. Snapper, M.D.
MEDITATIONS ON MEDICINE AND MEDICAL EDUCATION
PAST AND PRESENT
Grune&Stratton, New York, 1956
Copertina rigida, 22x14 cm, pp. 138
Peso: g. 316


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INDICE


Preface, IV
I.
Physicians and Surgeons in New Netherland Under the Dutch,

1 Introduction,

1Difficulties in Populating New Netherland,

4 Zieckentroosters and Midwives,

14 Academically Trained Physicians in New Amsterdam,

21 Dr. Johannes de la Montagne,

21 Dr. Johannes Kerfbijle,

30 Dr. Samuel Megapolensis, 31 Surgeons in New Amsterdam,

33 Surgeons in the Upper Hudson and Delaware Areas,

42 Medical Books and Medicaments in the Seventeenth Century,

45 Final Remarks,

49
II.

The Influence of Boerhaave of Leyden on Medicine in the U.S.A.,
50
Introduction, 50
The School of Knidos and Hippocrates, 53
Beginning of Bedside Teaching in Padua and its Transfer to Leyden,55
Fame of Leyden in the Time of Boerhaave (1701-1738), 64 Boerhaave as a Clinician, 65 Boerhaave
as Botanist and Chemist, 72
Boerhaave Organizes the System of Teaching Clinical Medicine, 73 Boerhaave’s Influence on Medicine in Europe,
82 Boerhaave’s Influence on Medicine in the United States, 85
III.
The Post-Boerhaavian Centuries, 92 Introduction, 92
The Deterioration of Clinical Medicine During Goethe’s Lifetime, 93 Antagonism between Clinical Bedside
Medicine and Medical Research: Its Influence on Medical Teaching, 99 The Neo-Boerhaavian System
of Medical Education,
113 Concluding Remarks, 123
Bibliography, 129
Index, 135