Category:History of medicine

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All human societies have medical beliefs - birth, death, disease and cures are explained in some manner. Historically, throughout the history of medicine world illness has often been attributed to witchcraft, demons or the will of the gods, ideas that still retain some power, even in 'modern' societies, with faith healing and shrines still common.

For more information, see the main article about History of medicine.

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Subcategories

There are 4 subcategories to this category.

E

• Epidemics

H

• History of anatomy
• History of ancient medicine

O

• Obsolete scientific theories

Articles in category "History of medicine"

There are 51 articles in this category.

* History of medicine A Abu al-Qasim Al-Razi Al-Tasrif Alfred Blalock Anaesthetic vaporiser Apothecary Asclepieion Avicenna B History of brain imaging Vital Brazil C The Canon of Medicine Peter Chamberlen Jean-Martin Charcot William Cheselden Harvey Cushing E Early Muslim medicine

F William Farr Four humours G Germ theory of disease Academy of Gundishapur Andreas Gruentzig H Helen B. Taussig History of anatomy History of cancer chemotherapy History of neurology History of traditional Chinese medicine I Ibn Nafis J John Hughlings Jackson James Young Simpson L History of LSD List of epidemics List of publications in medicine Lithotomy M Medieval medicine

M cont. History of mental illness O Osler Library of the History of Medicine William Osler P Louis Pasteur Patent medicine Plague doctor R John Radcliffe Pierre Paul Emile Roux S John Snow (physician) T Tacuinum Sanitatis Timeline of antibiotics Timeline of medicine and medical technology Timeline of vaccines V Vesalius Vivien Thomas Vivisection and experimentation debate

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