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Ancient medicine
- Title
- Ancient medicine / Vivian Nutton.
- Author
- Nutton, Vivian.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
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- Description
- xiv, 486 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Series of antiquity
- Uniform Title
- Sciences of antiquity.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
- Call Number
- R135
- ISBN
- 0415086116 (Hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003020012
- OCLC
- 53038721
- Author
- Nutton, Vivian.
- Title
- Ancient medicine / Vivian Nutton.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Series
- Series of antiquitySciences of antiquity.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-464) and indexes.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- *R-RMRR R135 .N88 2004