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A collection of source material on ancient Greek medicine from Homer to the Alexandrians, accessible to researchers, teachers, and students. Early chapters provide a chronological account, and remaining chapters deal with important topics such as diseases, pharmacology, surgery, and gynecology. Eac

The ancient Greek medical thinkers were profoundly influenced by Ionian natural philosophy. This philosophy caused them to adopt a radically new attitude towards disease and healing. James Longrigg shows how their rational attitudes ultimately resulted in levels of sophistication largely unsurpassed until the Renaissance. He examines the important relationship between philosophy and medicine in ancient Greece and beyond, and reveals its significance for contemporary western practice and theory.

The Greeks were the first to evolve rational systems of medicine almost entirely free from magical and religious elements and based upon natural causes. The importance of this revolutionary innovation for the subsequent history of medicine cannot be overstressed. In this book, James Longrigg describes the origin and development of this rational medicine in ancient Greece and examines its complex relationship with philosophy down to the 3rd century BC. He assimilates the latest material discoveries and scholarship. The emancipation of medicine from superstition was the outcome of the same...

Much of the Middle East is in a continuing state of visible, often revolutionary, change in almost every fi eld-social, cultural, economic, political. Although time will have greatly modifi ed the conditions here presented, the author emphasizes those aspects which, being the least ephemeral, were likely to remain valid for some years and indicates the areas in which the most change can be expected. Therefore, in evaluating any change that has occurred, the reader will at least be informed of the conditions out of which-or because of which-such an event occurre