_THE AGE OF SCIENCE._
I. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.—PHYSICAL SCIENCE ALLIED
TO MEDICINE 443
Exit the Disease-demon.—Medical Systems again.—Homœopathy.—The
Natural Sciences.—Chemistry, Electricity, Physiology,
Anatomy, Medicine and Pathology.—Psychiatry.—Surgery.—Ophthalmology.
II. MEDICAL REFORMS 464
Discovery of Anæsthetics.—Medical Literature.—Nursing Reform.—History
of the Treatment of the Insane.
III. THE GERM THEORY OF DISEASE 471
The Disease-demon reappears as a Germ.—Phagocytes.—Ptomaines.—Lister’s
Antiseptic Surgery.—Sanitary Science or Hygiene.—Bacteriologists.
—Faith Cures.—Experimental Physiology and
the Latest System of Medicine.
APPENDIX.
ON SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT MINERALS USED IN MEDICINE 486