CHINESE

Greek Medicine from the Heroic to the Hellenistic Age: A Source Book

By James Longrigg

Book information

Publisher
Duckworth
Year
1998
ISBN
9781472540713, 9780715627716
Language
chinese
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25635986 bytes)
Pages
\245
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 19:10:44

Description

Greek medicine is an important aspect of Greek culture. The Greeks were the first to put forward rational systems of medicine which resulted in a radically new conception of disease, accounting for causes and symptoms in purely natural terms. Greek rational medicine reached a climax in the third century BC at Alexandria, where medical anatomical researchers attained levels of accuracy and sophistication largely unsurpassed in Western culture until the 16th century. In the past this subject has been difficult to study because of the inaccessibility of source material, which is highly diverse, widely scattered, frequently unedited, and at times fragmentary. The aim of this book is to help to resolve this problem by providing a collection and translation of some of this material and assembling it in an accessible form.

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