| Descript. |
xiv, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Series of antiquity
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Sciences of antiquity.
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (page 317-464) and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Medicine, Ancient.
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Physicians -- History.
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History, Ancient.
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Physicians -- history.
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| ISBN |
0415086116 (hbk.) |
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0415368480 (pbk.) |
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