A History of Medicine. Volume I: Primitive and Archaic Medicine

摘要

The enthusiasm with which a series of essays by members of the Division of Neurological Surgery on the historical development of their specialty was received in seminars at the Johns Hopkins University led to their elaboration and integration in this work. From the prologue which traces the origins of surgery of the nervous system from ancient trepanation, evinced by trephined neolithic skulls, to the consideration of the present day problems of the specialty in the epilogue, every one interested in the nervous system will find fascinating reading in the myriad facts which have been collected.