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Author Longrigg, James

Title Greek Medicine : From the Heroic to the Hellenistic Age A Source Book
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
Contents Cover; GREEK MEDICINE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Abbreviations; I. Pre-rational and irrational medicine in ancient Greece and neighbouring cultures; II. The rise and development of rational medicine in ancient Greece; III. Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century I: Alcmaeon and the Presocratic philosophers; IV. The Hippocratic Corpus and the Hippocratic question; V. Philosophy and medicine in the fifth century II: Presocratic philosophy and the Hippocratic Corpus
VI. Philosophy and medicine until the fourth century: 'Sicilian' medicine and its influenceVII. Early Alexandrian medical science; VIII. Hippocratic deontology; IX. Disease and human physiology; X. Epidemic disease; XI. Prognosis and diagnosis; XII. Dietetics and regimen; XIII. Pharmacology; XIV. Anatomy; XV. Surgery; XVI. Gynaecology; Chronological table; Glossary of technical terms; Bibliography; Concordance of quoted passages; General index
Summary First Published in 1998
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136782190
1136782192