| Edition |
First US edition. |
| Physical Description |
xxvi, 404 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations. maps (one color) ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (321-368) and index. |
| Summary |
"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. Among his working principles was the famous maxim "Do no harm." In The Invention of Medicine, acclaimed historian Robin Lane Fox puts these remarkable works in a wider context and upends our understanding of medical history by establishing that they were written much earlier than previously thought"--Amazon. |
| Subject |
Medicine, Greek and Roman -- History.
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| Local Special Collection |
Cornerstones of Science (Brunswick, Me.)
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