James J. Walsh

Old-time Makers of Medicine James J. Walsh Abridged edition

First published in 1911, Dr. Walsh's Old-Time Makers of Medicine remains a valued book for readers interested in the history of medicine and surgery. There are chapters on early Christian as well as Jewish and Arab physicians, the foundations of dentistry, and medical education of the day. The stream of medical thought, from the fall of the Roman Empire under Augustulus until the discovery of America more than a thousand years later, is explored in chapters on the students and teachers of the medieval sciences.