Early civizalations : prehistoric times to 500 C.E.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Facts On File ,
2009
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| Series: | The history of medicine
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Paleopathology: the study of disease in prehistoric times
- 2. What the mummies reveal
- 3. Indian influence on medicine
- 4. The origins of chinese medicine
- 5. The ancient greeks and what they learned
- 6. Hippocrates and the importance of medical observation and documentation
- 7.Galen: the physician whose theories dominated medicine for 1,500 years
- 8. Medical progress during the Roman Empire.