Title The healing hand : man and wound in the ancient world / Guido Majno

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1975 Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991 ©1975

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MELB	610.9 M233H		AVAILABLE

Description xxiii, 571 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm Series Otto Hirschfeld Memorial Collection Otto Hirschfeld Memorial Collection Contents 1. Prelude -- 2. The Asu (Mesopotamia) -- 3. The Swnw (Egypt) -- 4. The Iatros (Greece) -- 5. The perfumes of Arabia -- 6. The Yang I (China) -- 7. The Vaidya (India) -- 8. Alexandria the Great -- 9. The Medicus (Rome) -- 10. Galen - and into the night Notes "A Commonwealth Fund book." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-469) and index Subject Medicine, Ancient. Surgery -- History. Wounds and injuries -- Treatment -- History. History, Ancient. Wound Healing. General Surgery -- history. History, Ancient. Medicine, Ancient Author Classics of Medicine Library. LC no. 74080730 ISBN 0674383311 (paperback)

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