Invaluable to instructors promoting the history of medicine in pre-professional training, and stressing major themes in the history of medicine, this third edition continues to stimulate further exploration of the events, methodologies, and ...
The book provides an essential and detailed look at the rich history of medicine and how it has impacted society.
A History of Medicine: Primitive and archaic medicine. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine
A History of Medicine: From Prehistory to the Year 2020
A History of Medicine: Renaissance medicine
6 See: Louis Bourgey, Observation et expérience chez les médecins de la Collection Hippocratique, Paris, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1953, p. 79. We will not use the Letters and Speeches for information about the life of ...
of the Empire and were usually called xenodocheia or xenones (from the word xenos, which means “stranger” or “guest”).213 By the ... See: Timothy S. Miller, The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins ...
A History of Medicine: Roman medicine
Even the healing god would not lengthen lives that were plainly not worth saving, or allow weak fathers to beget even weaker sons. The most important part of temple medicine was called incubation, or temple sleep.
... the tale known as “The Poor Man of Nippur.”152 The document has come to us through a copy from the seventh century BC, but the locale and personal names indicate that the tale is from around the middle of the second millennium.153 It is the ...