Physician and surgeon - v. 31 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: street it is unnoticable, and in time it is doubtful if she will show sufficient evidence of her nevus to embarrass her. We are prone to be overenthusiastic a... more »bout new therapeutic agents. In cases of such great disfigurement as results from nevi we certainly are justified in giving this means of treatment a trial, and from results so far reported we may look forward to most satisfactory improvement. Ann Arbor, 213 Huron Street, East. THE CONCEPTION OF TUBERCULOSIS IN THE TIME OF ARETAEUS. CIRCA 50-150 ANNO DOMINI. EMILY MYERS OBERLIN. STAFF ASSISTANT IN PATHOLOGY AT THB UNIVERSITY OP MICHIGAN. In order to understand and appreciate the work of this physician on this subject, it is necessary to know something of the age in which he lived as well as of the man himself, the opinions of his era, and how he reacted upon them. Concerning the era, first, it can only be approximated. From a study of the works of Galen and Aretaeus some similarities in their views are discovered. Both patterned after Hippocrates; both showed intimate knowledge with the spirit of Platonian philosophy; both were acquainted with sphygmology and used identical terms in describing different conditions of the pulse; both knew more of anatomy than any other authorities on ancient medicine. In the therapeutics and materia medica of each there are striking coincidences. The striking difference is that one wrote in modern Attic, the other in Ionic or Old Attic; but it seems to have been the custom of learned men in the second century to write sometimes in one dialect and sometimes in the other. So, then, from these resemblances and differences Adams, in his translation of the works of Aretaeus for the Sydenham Society, concludes that Aretaeus must have been a contemporary of Galen who was bo...« less