Ancient MedicineAvailable for the first time in paperback, the first substantial, sole-authored history of ancient medicine for almost 100 years uses both archaeological and written evidence to survey the development of medicine from early Greece to late Antiquity. |
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Alexandria anatomy Ancient Medicine Anonymus Londinensis Antiquity Apollo Aristides Aristotle Asclepiades Asclepius Athenaeus Athens believed bile blood body body’s Caelius Aurelianus cause Celsus century BC Christian claimed CMG Suppl Commentary contemporary cult cure Diocles Dioscorides dissection divine doctor drugs earlier Edelstein 1945 Egypt Egyptian Eijk Emperor emphasised Ephesus Epidaurus Epidemics Erasistratus evidence explain fourth century Galen Greece Greek Greek medicine healers healing Hellenistic Herophilus Hippocrates Hippocratic Corpus human humours Ibid illness individual inscriptions Italy Jouanna Kudlien Largus later Latin Methodists modern Nutton Oath ofhis ofits ofthe one’s Oribasius P. N. Singer papyrus patient Pergamum philosopher phlegm physician plague Plato Pliny Plutarch practice practitioners Praxagoras pref recipes remedies Rome Rufus Scribonius Largus second century shrine slaves Soranus Staden suggests surgery surviving temple texts Themison theory therapy Thessalus town tradition treatise treatment W. D. Smith writings