e important discoveries and inventions,
and then, after a time, forget about them so that they have to be made
over again? This is as true in medical science and in medical practice
as in every other department of human effort. It does not seem possible
that mankind should ever lose sight of the progress in medicine and
surgery that has been made in recent years, yet the history of the past
would seem to indicate that, in spite of its unlikelihood, it might well
come about. Whether this is the lesson of the book or not, I shall leave
readers to judge, for it was not intentionally put into it.

OUR LADY'S DAY IN HARVEST, 1911.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. INTRODUCTION 1

II. GREAT PHYSICIANS IN EARLY CHRISTIAN TIMES 23

III. GREAT JEWISH PHYSICIANS 61

IV. MAIMONIDES 90

V. GREAT ARABIAN PHYSICIANS 109

VI. THE MEDICAL SCHOOL AT SALERNO 141

VII. CONSTANTINE AFRICANUS 163

VIII. MEDIEVAL WOMEN PHYSICIANS 177

IX. MONDINO AND THE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF BOLOGNA 202

X. GREAT SURGEONS OF THE MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITIES 234

XI. GUY DE CHAULIAC 282

XII. MEDIEVAL DENTISTRY--GIOVANNI OF ARCOLI 313

XIII. CUSANUS AND THE FIRST SUGGESTION OF LABORATORY
METHODS IN MEDICINE 336

XIV. BASIL VALENTINE, LAST OF THE ALCHEMISTS,
FIRST OF THE CHEMISTS 349

APPENDICES

I. ST. LUKE THE PHYSICIAN 381

II. SCIENCE AT THE MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITIES 400

III. MEDIEVAL POPULARIZATION OF SCIENCE 427

"Of making many books there is no end."--_Eccles._ xii, 12 (circa 1000
B.C.).

"The little by-play between Socrates and Euthydemus suggests an advanced
condition of medical literature: 'Of course, you who have so many books
are going in for being a doctor,' says Socrates, and then he adds,
'there are so many books on medicine, you know.' As Dyer remarks,
whatever the quality of these books may have been, their number must
have been great to give point to this chaff."--_Aequanimitas_,
WILLIAM OSLER, M.D., F.R.S., Blakistons, Philadelphia, 1906.

"Augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur;
Inque brevi spatio