Download or read book Greek and Roman in Latin Medical Texts written by Brigitte Maire and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin medical texts transmit medical theories and practices that originated mainly in Greece. This interaction took place through juxtaposition, assimilation and transformation of ideas. 'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin Medical Texts studies the ways in which this cultural interaction influenced the development of the medical profession and the growth of knowledge of human and animal bodies, and especially how it provided the foundations for innovations in the areas of anatomy, pathology and pharmacology, from the earliest Latin medical texts until well into the medieval world.
Download or read book Greek medicine in Rome written by Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roman Medicine written by Audrey Cruse and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2025-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the mid-nineteenth century the Western medical tradition rested firmly on the foundations established in Classical Greece and later transmitted throughout the Roman Empire. Against this long and complex background, including both religious and magical medicine, Audrey Cruse looks at the many different aspects of medicine and health in the Roman Empire, especially Roman Britain.
Download or read book A Companion to Science Technology and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome 2 Volume Set written by Georgia L. Irby and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 1111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome brings a fresh perspective to the study of these disciplines in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives. Brings a fresh perspective to the study of science, technology, and medicine in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives Begins coverage in 600 BCE and includes sections on the later Roman Empire and beyond, featuring discussion of the transmission and reception of these ideas into the Renaissance Investigates key disciplines, concepts, and movements in ancient science, technology, and medicine within the historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts of Greek and Roman society Organizes its content in two halves: the first focuses on mathematical and natural sciences; the second focuses on cultural applications and interdisciplinary themes 2 Volumes
Download or read book Roman Medicine written by Audrey Cruse and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audrey Cruse looks at the many different aspects of medicine and health in the Roman Empire, particularly Roman Britain.
Download or read book Greek and Roman Medicine written by Ian Dawson and published by Enchanted Lion Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about Greek and Roman medicine.
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Download or read book Greco Roman Medicine and What It Can Teach Us Today written by Nick Summerton and published by Pen and Sword Archaeology. This book was released on 2022-01-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There can be little doubt that the Romans experienced many of the illnesses that are still encountered today, and individuals have always had to decide how best to deal with their health-related concerns. The Roman Empire was an amalgam of many cultures, often with dissimilar ideas and beliefs. The Greek impact on health was particularly dominant and, therefore, this book focuses on Greco-Roman medicine as it was practised during the Pax Romana, the period between the accession of Augustus and the death of Marcus Aurelius. Drawing on ancient literature supplemented with evidence from archaeology, paleopathology, epigraphy and numismatics the Greco-Roman medical context is carefully examined. A particular focus is on the effectiveness of approaches to both preventing and treating a range of physical and psychological problems. Detailed consideration is also given to the ancient technical and hygienic achievements in addition to the place of healers within Roman society. Uniquely, within each chapter, the author draws on his own clinical and public health experience, combined with modern research findings, in assessing the continuing relevance of Greco-Roman medicine. For example, Galen`s focus on access to fresh air, movement, sensible eating and getting sufficient sleep matter as much today as they did in the past. Our classical forebears can also assist us in determining the best balances between prevention and treatment, centralised control and individual responsibility, as well as the most appropriate uses of technology, drugs and surgery. Some ancient pharmaceutical compounds are already showing promise in treating infections. In addition, practising Stoicism and getting some locotherapy should be considered by anyone struggling to cope with the stresses and strains of modern life.
Download or read book Greek Medicine in Rome written by Thomas Clifford Allbutt and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge, Allbutt was a great literary stylist. He has been described by Underwood as the most learned and distinguished physician of the last hundred years.
Download or read book Greek and Roman Medicine written by Helen King and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2001-10-25 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to ancient medical systems asks how the experience of illness and the role of medicine were understood in the Greek and Roman worlds. The text focuses on the place of medicine within changing types of society.
Download or read book Popular Medicine in Graeco Roman Antiquity Explorations written by William V. Harris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of healthcare in the classical world suffers from notable neglect in one crucial area. While scholars have intensively studied both the rationalistic medicine that is conveyed in the canonical texts and also the ‘temple medicine’ of Asclepius and other gods, they have largely neglected to study popular medicine in a systematic fashion. This volume, which for the most part is the fruit of a conference held at Columbia University in 2014, aims to help correct this imbalance. Using the full range of available evidence - archaeological, epigraphical and papyrological, as well as the literary texts - the international cast of contributors hopes to show what real people in Antiquity actually did when they tried to avert illness or cure it.
Download or read book Greek Medicine in Rome written by Thomas Clifford Allbutt and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Medicine written by Vivian Nutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining archaeological evidence with the witness of written texts, Vivian Nutton offers a detailed history of medicine & medical knowledge in the ancient world.
Download or read book Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World written by Alan Sumler and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did the ancient Greeks and Romans use psychoactive cannabis? Scholars say that hemp was commonplace in the ancient world, but there is no consensus on cannabis usage. According to botany, hemp and cannabis are the same plant and thus the ancient Greeks and Romans must have used it in their daily lives. Cultures parallel to the ancient Greeks and Romans, like the Egyptians, Scythians, and Hittites, were known to use cannabis in their medicine, religion and recreational practices. Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World surveys the primary references to cannabis in ancient Greek and Roman texts and covers emerging scholarship about the plant in the ancient world. Ancient Greek and Latin medical texts from the Roman Empire contain the most mentions of the plant, where it served as an effective ingredient in ancient pharmacy. Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World focuses on the ancient rationale behind cannabis and how they understood the plant’s properties and effects, as well as its different applications. For the first time ever, this book provides a sourcebook with the original ancient Greek and Latin, along with translations, of all references to psychoactive cannabis in the Greek and Roman world. It covers the archaeology of cannabis in the ancient world, including amazing discoveries from Scythian burial sites, ancient proto-Zoroastrian fire temples, Bronze Age Chinese burial sites, as well as evidence in Greece and Rome. Beyond cannabis, Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World also explores ancient views on medicine, pharmacy, and intoxication.
Download or read book De Materia Medica written by Pedanius Dioscorides and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicine and Markets in the Graeco Roman World and Beyond written by Rebecca Flemming and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost half a century, Vivian Nutton has been a leading figure in the study of ancient (and less ancient) medicine. The field itself has been revolutionised over that time. In this volume distinguished colleagues and former students develop, in his honour, key themes of his ground-breaking scholarship. Spanning from the Bronze Age to the Digital Age, involving the cult of Artemis and the corpuscular theories of Asclepiades of Bithynia, the medicinal uses of beavers and the cost of health-care and wet-nursing, case-histories, remedy exchange and the medical repercussions of political assassination, this book has at its centre the pluralism and diversity of the ancient medical marketplace. The lively interplay between choice and competition, unity and division, communication and debate, so notable in Vivian Nutton's foundational vision of the world of classical medicine, is richly examined across these pages.
Download or read book Greek Medicine in Rome written by T. Clifford Allbutt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Greek Medicine in Rome: The Fitzpatrick Lectures on the History of Medicine Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1909-1910; With Other Historical Essays No doubt there is a temptation to make too much of ancient and inchoate notions not only to interpret them in the light of modern opinions but also to remodel them on modern patterns, and to read into them notions then undiscernible. Against such colorable renderings we are well warned if not always well guarded but we hear less of the converse error, one which has done injustice to our forefathers, the error of dissipating an ancient idea almost to evanescence by too vivid a use of the modern searchlight. Schultz has well said of the relics of the Ionians, as also of the arts of the fourteenth century, that at first they seem almost absurd; yet as we study them we begin to realise the value of their intent and content. Not at first explicit, they need precipitation from their solutions. For action, and this is the function of mankind, some system of dogma has always been a necessary support; some scaffold ing of an empirical philosophy must come before science. Things have to be done that will not wait. We have to outbuild our materials - gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble each perhaps having its provisional value. The Roman was above all things, a man of action; in Rome, even more than elsewhere, ideas became rigid or rhetorical, and outlived their spirit. Then came the inevitable recoil to the scepticism that was born in Greece and in Alexandria; but even the sceptics in their turn secreted a shell no less hard than that of any other sect. The problem of all time and of all people, a problem hitherto unsolved, has been to build doctrine just so far and so firmly as to give an instrument for social and rational purposes, but not so far as to harden into constraint. From a like point of view Dr. Edward Caird has written - that systems of doctrine survive the most violent assaults, and even gain vigour from them what they cannot stand against is being thoroughly understood and appreciated. Then the intelligence goes through and beyond them. The principle is extracted, and goes forth into new forms of life and thought wherein lie new mysteries to attract the spirit of discovery. History tells us that an idea arises, and a sect grows up to work it but no sooner is the form established than a few minds, and then more and more, begin to run from under it, leaving the form to petrify. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
