The invention of medicine : from Homer to Hippocrates / Robin Lane Fox.
"Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth century BCE, a Greek doctor put forward his clinical observations of individual men, women, and children in a collection of case histories known as the Epidemics. Am...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2020.
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| Edition: | First US edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xxvi, 404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |