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A Sketch of Medicine and Pharmacy
by Samuel Evans Massengill
S.E. Massengill Company, Bristol, Tennessee, 1943, 445pp, HC
[Europe, BC-16C; also Europe, America, 17-20C]

Chapters
1. Medicine in the Stone Age
2. Medicine in Ancient Egypt
3. Medicine in Ancient Greece
4. Medicine in Rome
5. Arabian Medicine in the Middle Ages
6. European Medicine in the Middle Ages
7. Medicine in Europe in the Fifteenth Century (The Renaissance)
8. Medicine in Europe in the Sixteenth Century
9. Medicine in Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
10. Medicine in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Modern Medicine)
11. Medicine in the Bible
12. Surgeons and Surgery
13. Women and Medicine
14. Midwifery
15. Dentistry
16. Advice to Physicians
17. Poisons
18. Poisoners
19. Love-Philters
20. Snakes in Medicine
21. Folk Medicine
22. Is There Anything New Under the Sun?
23. Pharmacy
24. Pharmacy in America

1. William Murray
2. Dr. Robert Massengill Porter
3. Dr. John David Massengill
4. One of Dr. John David Massengill's Saddle Horses
5. Dr. Crawford W. Long
6. Dr. John Gorrie
7. "America's Oldest Pharmacy" (Original Apparati)
8. General Hugh Mercer's Apothecary Shop
9. Restoration of the General Court Prison for Debtors
10. Stabler-Leadbetter Apothecary Shop
11. Exterior of Apothecaries' Hall
12. Apothecary Shop of Dr. Corbin Griffin
13. Stalnaker Drug Store (Show Bottles and Scales)
14. Hay's Drug Store in 1841
15. Henry H. Hay
16. Carl's Drug Store in 1880
17. Massengill Family Memorial
18. Site of the Massengill Family Memorial
19. Norman Hood Massengill
20. Dr. Samuel Evans Massengill
21. First Laboratory of The Massengill Company
22. Front View of Present Massengill Company Laboratory
23. Rear View of Present Massengill Company Laboratory
24. The S.E. Massengill Company, Kansas City, Mo.
25. The S.E. Massengill Company, New York, N.Y.
26. The S.E. Massengill Company, San Francisco, Calif.