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Ancient medicine

Author: Vivian Nutton
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series: Sciences of antiquity.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Vivian Nutton
ISBN: 0415086116 9780415086110
OCLC Number: 53038721
Description: xiv, 486 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
Series Title: Sciences of antiquity.
Responsibility: Vivian Nutton.
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