AuthorNutton, Vivian
TitleAncient medicine [electronic resource] / Vivian Nutton
Imprint London ; New York : Routledge, 2004
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Descript xiv, 486 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

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


SUBJECT

  1. Medicine
  2. Ancient
  3. Physicians -- History
  4. History of Medicine
  5. Ancient
  6. Physicians -- history
  7. Electronic books.