Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-468) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Sources and scope -- 2. Patterns of disease -- 3. Before Hippocrates -- 4. Hippocrates, the 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.
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