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    Ancient medicine / Vivian Nutton.

    By: Nutton, VivianMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Sciences of antiquity: Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005Description: xiv, 486 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 0415368480 (pbk.); 9780415368483 (pbk.)Subject(s): Medicine, Ancient | Physicians -- HistoryLOC classification: R135 | .N88 2004
    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.
    Summary: Combining archaeological evidence with the witness of written texts, Vivian Nutton offers a detailed history of medicine & medical knowledge in the ancient world.
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    Originally published as hbk.: 2004.

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-464) and indexes.

    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.

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-464) and indexes.

    Combining archaeological evidence with the witness of written texts, Vivian Nutton offers a detailed history of medicine & medical knowledge in the ancient world.

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