Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities McKeown J. C.
Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities McKeown J. C. There are few disciplines as exciting and forward-looking as medicine. A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities aspires to cure this lapse by…
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Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities McKeown J. C.
There are few disciplines as exciting and forward-looking as medicine. A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities aspires to cure this lapse by taking readers back to the early days of Western medicine in ancient Greece and Rome. Unfortunately, however, many modern practitioners have lost sight of the origins of their discipline.
McKeown offers a fascinating glimpse at the origins of surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, pharmacology, diet and nutrition, and many other fields of medicine.This book features hundreds of passages from Greek and Roman authors, with gentle guidance from McKeown, giving a vividly direct picture of the ancient medical world, a world in which, for example, a surgeon had to be strong-minded enough to ignore the screams of his patient, Quoting the actual words of ancient authors, often from texts which have never before been translated into English, J. C.