Includes bibliographical references and index.

Medicine in the pre-spanish and spanish periods -- Medicine during the first Philippine republic and the Filipino-American war years -- Medicine during the American Period (1898-1946) -- The colleges of Medicine, Public Health, Pharmacy of U.P. and the Philippine General Hospital -- Medicine during the Japanese Occupation and battle of liberation -- The restores Philippines republic -- Department of Health -- The Philippine medical association and component societies -- The specialty medical societies -- Medical Education and Philippines medical schools -- The martial law Period -- Restored democracy-Post (1972-1986) -- Other Achievers of the past 50 years -- Managed health care -- Philippines drug development, regulation and use -- The health of the Filipino at the end of the Twentieth Century, Demography and Bio-statistics -- Other medical Associations-local and international -- Medical knowledge and practice: then and now -- The fight against nutritional diseases -- Alternative Medicine : From plants -- Alternative Medicine: Holistic Approach -- Recent initiatives in Medical Education.