Back to Medical Library Search

Devils, Drugs and Doctors
Howard W. Haggard
Charles River Books, Boston, 1980, 405pp, HC.
[Mediterranean, Europe, BC-19C]

Chapters
1. The Conquest of Death at Birth
   1. Childbirth and Civilization
   2. Sarey Gamps and the Midmen
   3. "The Compassion of Peter Chamberlen"
   4. "A Gentleman with Clean Hands May Carry the Disease"
2. THE STORY OF ANESTHESIA
   1. "In Sorrow Thou Shalt Bring Forth Children"
3. THE PROGRESS OF SURGERY
   1. Making an Anatomy
   2. The Greatest Surgeon
4. THE PASSING OF PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE
   1. The Black Death
   2. Pestilence and Personal Liberty
   3. Pestilence and Moralists
   4. The Medical Thread in the Moral Snarl
5. THE HEALING ART
   1. The Halt, The Lame, and the Blind
   2. White Magic and Black
   3. A Drug on the Market
   4. The Turning-Point
   5. Toward a Better Civilization
6. MEDICINE THROUGH THE AGES
   1. Civilization and Medicine

Illustrations
• Initial Letter from the "Surgery" of Ambroise Paré
• Birth of Cleopatra's Child
• Baptismal Syringe
• Ceremonial Purification after Childbirth among the Siamese
• An Indian Brave Hastening Labor
• An Obstetrical Chair
• Ancient Methods of Hastening Labor
• Ancient Methods of Hastening Labor
• "Hippocrates of Coos, the Prince of Physicians"
• A Centauress Nursing Her Child
• Initial Letter from the "Fabrica" of Andreas Vesalius
• Fifteenth-century Kiddy-car
• Fifteenth-century Nurse and Child
• Eucharius Roslin Presenting His Book to the Duchess of Brunswick
• A Page from "The Byrthe of Mankynde"
• A Room in the Hôtel Dieu
• Hospital Patient in Bed with a Corpse
• The Birth of Cæsar, from the 1506 Edition of Seutonius
• A Cæsarean Operation in the Seventeenth Century
• The Autograph of Ambroise Paré
• Initial Letter from the Alphabet of the Death Dance by Hans Holbein
• A Fifteenth-century Lying-in Room
• The Height of Prudery -- A Physician Operating under the Sheet
• Sixteenth-century Lying-in Room, Switzerland
• Title Page of "The English Midwife Enlarged"
• "Dorothie, Great with Child with Manie Children"
• Nurses Swaddling a Child
• Thirteenth-century Nurses with Swaddled Children
• Sage-Femme
• Invitation to Guy Patin's Funeral
• Egyptian Women Carrying Their Children
• Initial Letter from the Alphabet of the Death Dance by Hans Holbein
• Death and the Physician
• Oliver Wendell Holmes as Drawn by Himself
• Death and the Priest
• Initial Letter from the "Surgery" of Ambroise Paré
• Gathering a Mandrake
• Toothache, or Torment and Torture, A Caricature by Rowlandson
• The Birth of Eve -- The First Anesthesia
• A Pair of Mandrakes
• Initial Letter from the "Surgery" of Ambroise Paré
• The Wound Man
• The First Water-closet
• Title Page of the Medical Poem of Salerno
• The Rx in Ancient Medical Manuscripts
• Title Page to the "Anatomy" of Mundinus
• Andreas Vesalius
• The Skeleton from Paré's "Surgery"
• The Skeletons of a Medieval Death Dance
• An Anatomical Dissection as Represented by Hogarth
• William Burke in Chains
• The Signature of William Burke, Murderer
• Hare and His Wife and Child in Court
• The Anatomist
• Initial Letter from the "Fabrica" of Andreas Vesalius
• The Fatal Joust Between Henry II and Montogomery
• Title Page from the "Fabrica" of Andreas Vesalius
• Barber Surgeon Removing an Arrow
• A Sixteenth-century Amputation
• An Amputation According to Rowlandson
• Initial Letter from the Alphabet of the Death Dance by Hans Holbein
• "A Rod for Run-Awayes"
• Title Page of the London Bills of Mortality for 1665
• The Diseases and Casualties during the Plague Year
• "The Figure of a Fearful Comet"
• An Earthquake
• Burying the Plague Victims
• The Crowded Churchyard
• The Leper, after Rembrandt
• London during the Plague
• Burning Plague-spreaders
• Burning the Jews
• The Thumbscrew of Maria Theresa
• Applying the Thumbscrew
• Torture with the Rack and Candle
• Tying a Victim for the Strappado
• Torture and Execution of the Plague-spreaders
• The Plague Doctor
• Death and the Child
• Initial Letter from the Alphabet of the Death Dance by Hans Holbein
• "Souvenirs of the Cholera"
• "Cholera Pie"
• St. Anthony and a Victim of His Disease
• The Quarantine
• Title Page of Jenner's Paper on Vaccination
• The Crippled Beggar
• Initial Letter from the Alphabet of the Death Dance by Hans Holbein
• Death and the Newly Married Lady
• Girolamo Fracastoro
• "Figure of a Colt with a Man's Face"
• A Monstrosity According to Paré
• The Benefits of Bleeding
• Initial Letter from the Alphabet of the Death Dance by Hans Holbein
• Title Page of Bernard Mandeville's Satirical Defense of Regulated Prostitution
• Title Page of an Anonymous Pamphlet on Prostitution
• A Medieval House of Prostitution
• Orange Girls
• Street Prostitutes
• Benjamin Franklin on Swimming
• Initial Letter from Dekker's Plague Pamphlet
• A Physician's Costume in the Year 20,000 B.C.
• Possession by Devils
• Clubfoot Resulting from Hysteria
• St. Gualbert Freeing a Sick Monk of His Devil
• King Edward the Confessor Applying Faith Healing
• A Woman Delivered of Three Devils
• St. Radegonde, Queen of France, Exorcising a Devil
• "A Kind of Medicine"
• Initial Letter from the "Fabrica" of Andreas Vesalius
• James Graham, the Proprietor of a "Celestial Bed"
• Animal Magnetism
• Hypnotist
• An Advertisement by Mary Baker Eddy
• Initial Letter from the Alphabet of the Death Dance by Hans Holbein
• The Unicorn
• Title Page to Kenelme Digby's Book on the Powder of Sympathy
• Kenelme Digby on Prenatal Influence
• The Effects of Prenatal Influence
• "Galen, Prince of Physicians Next to Hippocrates"
• "The Apothecary"
• Death's Head from One of Dekker's Plague Pamplhets
• Initial Letter from the "Surgery" of Ambroise Paré
• Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
• Initial Letter from the "Surgery" of Ambroise Paré
• The Sanguine Man
• Quack Removing a Stone from the Head of an Insane Woman
• Death Extinguishes the Flame of Illicit Love
• Initial Letter from the "Surgery" of Ambroise Paré
• The Consequences of Man's Fall

• Midwife Going to Labor, Caricature by Rowlandson
• "The Undertaker's Arms, or a Consultation of Physicians," Caricature by Hogarth
• The DIscoverer of Nitrous Oxide Assisting at an Experiment
• The First Public Demonstration of Surgical Anesthesia
• German Calot Cutting the the Stone before King Louis XI
• A Barber Surgeon Operating in His Office
• The Plague in Marseilles in 1720
• Napoleon among the Plage Victims at Jaffa
• The Patron Saint of Toothache
• Jenner Applying Vaccination, Caricature by Gillray
• One Way of Suppressing Prostitution
• Prominent Faith Healers of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries
• Perkin's Metallic Tractors, Caricature by Gillray
• Physicians Argue and the Patient Dies
• Florence Nightingale, Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, and Lord Lister
• A Scene in Bedlam as Portrayed by Hogarth