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CONTENTS.
Introduction 17
- Physiognomy of the Nose.
- Etymology of the Nose.
Egyptian Medicine 21
- Specialists in Egypt.
- Herodotus' Account of Them.
- The Breath of Life.
- The Papyros Ebers.
- The Exodus of the Jews.
- Penalties for Malpractice.
Chaldean Medicine 24
- The Records of Magic.
- Their Introduction in Rome.
- The Medicine of the Market Place.
- Stercoraceous Drugs.
- Witch Medicine.
- Pliny and the Therapy of the Magi.
- Its Contact with Greek Medicine.
- The Zend Avesta and the Medicine of the Parsees.
The Medicine of the Talmud 27
- Diphtheria Among the Babylonian Jews.
- The Relation to the Zend Avesta.
- Tracheotomy.
- Nasal Polyp and Ozaena.
Hindu Medicine 28
- Its Puzzling Chronology.
- Its Relation to Greek Medicine.
- Susruta and Hippocrates.
- Reference in the Rig Veda to Tracheotomy.
- Charaka Samhita.
- The Trace of Humoral Pathology.
- Uvulotomy and Tonsillotomy.
- Rhinoplasty.
- Vaporizations and Fumigations and the Intranasal Use of Oil.
- Sternutatories.
- Foreign Bodies in the Throat.
- Fracture of the Nose.
- The Physiognomy of Death.
Pre-Hippocratic Medicine in Greece 35
- Its Oriental Derivation.
- Its Occidental Transformation.
- Civilization in Greece.
- Ancestry of Hippocrates.
- Greek Medicine at the Siege of Troy.
- The Nose and Throat in Homer.
- Etymology of Greek Words for Throat.
- Pharynx, Larynx.
- Drink in the Larynx.
- Early Greek Superstition.
- The Early Philosophers and Their Ideas of Anatomy of the Nose and Throat and the Eustachian Tube.
- Goats Breathing through their Ears.
- The Atomic Theory and its Relation to Voice Production and Hearing.
