Ancient Medicine
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I think I’ll include the original description with these Classics Confidential posts … This week’s interview features Professor Daniela Manetti from the University of Florence, who at the time of filming was visiting the Humboldt University in Berlin as part of the research programme ‘Medicine of the Mind, Philosophy of the Body: Discourses of Health…
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This is another Cambridge Journals thing … the European Review has an issue on ancient medicine and the following are free (all the papers are pdf): Heikki Solin, Was there a Medical School at Salerno in Roman Times? Vivian Nutton, Galen and Roman Medicine: or can a Greek become a Latin? Lola Ferre, The Jewish…
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Very interesting item at History in an Hour … here’s a tease: During the third century BCE, the city of Alexandria was home to a remarkable event in the development of ancient medicine as two physicians, named Herophilus and Erasistratus, conducted ground-breaking investigations into internal human anatomy. This research was important not only because it…
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