Ancient medicine
Vivian Nutton
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- E-Book
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004
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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.
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- English
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-464) and indexes.
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. "This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004." - Physical Description:
- xiv, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- text file
- Call Numbers:
- R135 .N88 2004eb
- ISBNs:
- 0203490916 (electronic bk.)
- OCLC Numbers:
- 1053016882
55627854 [Invalid]