to the end of this foundation more effectively than any attempt to
emphasize the elements of doctrine or of creed; and he therefore
provided that lectures on dogmatic or polemical theology should be
excluded from the scope of this foundation, and that the subjects should
be selected rather from the domains of natural science and history,
giving special prominence to astronomy, chemistry, geology and anatomy.

It was further directed that each annual course should be made the basis
of a volume to form part of a series constituting a memorial to Mrs.
Silliman. The memorial fund came into the possession of the Corporation
of Yale University in the year 1901; and the present volume constitutes
the tenth of the series of memorial lectures.


CONTENTS

Chapter I. Origin Of Medicine
Chapter II. Greek Medicine
Chapter III. Mediaeval Medicine
Chapter IV. The Renaissance and the Rise of Anatomy and Physiology
Chapter V. The Rise and Development of Modern Medicine
Chapter VI. The Rise of Preventive Medicine




PREFACE

THE manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of
Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in April, 1913, on the