Ancient medicine
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Series: | Sciences of antiquity.
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Table of Contents:
- Sources and Scope
- Patterns of disease
- Before Hippocrates
- Hippocrates, the Hippocratic Corpus, and the defining of medicine
- Hippocratic theories
- Hippocratic practices
- Religion and medicine in fifth- and fourth-century Greece
- From Plato to Praxagoras
- Alexandria, anatomy, and experimentation
- Hellenistic medicine
- Rome and the transplantation of Greek medicine
- The Consequences of Empire: pharmacology, surgery and the Roman Army
- The rise of Methodism
- Humoral alternatives
- The life and career of Galen
- Galenic medicine
- All sorts and conditions of (mainly) men
- Medicine and the religions of the Roman Empire
- Medicine in the later Roman Empire.