Abstract
THIS work, which emanates from a prominent London otologist with whom the study of folk-lore plays the part of the violin of Ingres, constitutes an attempt to show in what manner and to what extent primitive thought has influenced the evolution of the science and art of medicine. The work, as we learn from the preface, is intended not only for the small section of the medical public interested in medical history, but also for all practitioners of medicine, in that it seeks to explain the more obscure workings of the partially educated lay mind in civilised communities as well as in the savage and semi-civilised races of the world.
The Infancy of Medicine: an Enquiry into the Influence of Folk-Lore upon the Evolution of Scientific Medicine.
By Dr. Dan M'Kenzie Pp. xiv + 421. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 15s. net.
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The Infancy of Medicine: an Enquiry into the Influence of Folk-Lore upon the Evolution of Scientific Medicine. Nature 121, 133 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121133c0
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