Medicine and Surgery, in the Orient, Early Days of the American Surgical Association (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Medicine and Surgery, in the Orient, Early Days of the American Surgical Association A recent visit to the Orient has afforded me the opportunity to study modern scientific medicine as it exists there to-day. Through the courtesy of members of the medical profession and others, I was permitted to make extended observations of the conditions which are present, and which have exerted a dominating influence in the development and growth of scientific medicine in the East. I have chosen to speak of "Modern Medicine and Surgery in the Orient, " and not of ancient, empiric medicine, as the history of medicine tells us it existed from the earliest recorded period of time. In the paper which I read before the Association, at the meeting at St. Louis, in 1904, on the "Evolution of Surgery, " I directed attention to the practice of the art of surgery at that time, when it existed as an art, and not as a science, and in considering the evolution, or the unfolding of surgery, I endeavored to show that this was accomplished by a gradual ingrafting of the science, influenced greatly by important controlling factors, most importantly by the cultivation of human anatomy, so auspiciously begun in the great school of Alexandria three hundred years before the Christian era, inspired by the instruction of Herophilus and Erasistratus, the first anatomists who dissected and described parts of the human body. Following in order, comparative anatomy, physiology', pathology, chemistry, and therapeutics were brought to make their contributions to the growing science, broadening the fields of investigation and determining its scope. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.