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The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds, written by the foremost expert on the subject, has been updated to inco

A History of the Medicines We Take gives a lively account of the development of medicines from traces of herbs found with the remains of Neanderthal man, to pre

This volume highlights the people and scientific developments in military medicine through the ages, concentrating on medical advances that changed both warfare

Explores how the introduction of timekeeping technologies -- sundials and water clocks -- affected the practice, rhetoric, and theory of ancient medicine; and,

The story of early medicine is one of magic and sorcery, religion and prayers, shamans and surgeons, and ingenuity and experimentation. All manner of successes