Excerpt from Chronologia Medica: A Handlist of Persons, Periods and Events in the History of Medicine IT has been our endeavour in the following pages to present a handlist of the chief persons, periods and events in the history of the healing art from traditional times far back in the mists of antiquity, onwards through the ages to the present, time. The importance of dates and periods to the student of the history of medicine is Obvious. They help to memorize the names of those who made the discoveries forming the milestones in the march of progress which have raised medicine to its present position. 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.