Ancient medicine / Vivian Nutton.

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Bibliographic Details
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Main Author:	Nutton, Vivian
Series:	Sciences of antiquity
Subjects:	Medicine, Ancient. Physicians > History.
Format:	Book

Ancient medicine /

Table of Contents:

1. Sources and scope
2. Patterns of disease
3. Before Hippocrates
4. Hippocrates, and Hippocratic Corpus and the defining of medicine
5. Hippocratic theories
6. Hippocratic practices
7. Religion and medicine in fifth- and fourth-century Greece
8. From Plato to Praxagoras
9. Alexandria, anatomy and experimentation
10. Hellenistic medicine
11. Rome and the transplantation of Greek medicine
12. The consequences of empire: pharmacology, surgery and the Roman army
13. The rise of Methodism
14. Humoral alternatives
15. The life and career of Galen
16. Galenic medicine
17. All sorts and conditions of (mainly) men
18. Medicine and the religions of the Roman Empire
19. Medicine in the Later Roman Empire
20. Conclusion.