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| Paleopathology and Primitive Medicine | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Dettwyler | |
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| Can Paleopathology Provide Evidence for `Compassion'? | |
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| Rifkinson-Mann | |
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| Cranial Surgery in Ancient Peru | |
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| Garn | |
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| What Did Our Ancestors Eat? | |
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| Micozzi | |
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| Disease in Antiquity: the Case of Cancer | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| The Middle East in Antiquity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Holy Bible | |
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| The Bible | |
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| On Leprosy | |
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| Exodus 4: 6-8 | |
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| Leviticus 13: 2-3, 45-46 | |
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| Leviticus 14: 1-9 | |
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| 2 Kings 7:3-4 | |
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| 2 Chronicles 26:20-21 | |
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| Matthew 8: 1-4 | |
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| Edwin Smith Papyrus | |
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| Case 7: "A gaping wound in the head", not treatable | |
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| Case 21: "A split in the temporal bone", contendable | |
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| Case 40: "A wound in the breast", treatable | |
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| Ebers Papyrus: Remedies for common complaints | |
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| Remedy to clear out the body and to get rid of the excrement in the body of a person | |
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| Remedy to stop the diarrhea | |
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| Another remedy to drive out indigestion out of the body | |
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| Remedy to drive out the pain in the head | |
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| To prevent burn wounds and an incantation for burns | |
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| Remedy to allay itching Marr | |
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| An Epidemiological Analysis of the Ten Plagues of Egypt Spiegel | |
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| Babylonian Medicine, Managed Care, Codex Hammurabi, ca. 1700 | |
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| Key Terms Questions to Consider Recommended Readings | |
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| China and India in Antiquity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Sushruta Samhita selections | |
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| Manyam | |
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| Epilepsy in Ancient India | |
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| Lai: History of Epilepsy in Chinese Traditional Medicine | |
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| Veith: Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wen | |
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| The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine | |
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| Zhang: Medicine is a Humane Art | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Greece | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Thucydides | |
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| The Peloponnesian War | |
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| The Second Book | |
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| Hippocrates | |
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| On the Sacred Disease | |
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| Case histories from Of the Epidemics | |
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| Santos: Chest Trauma During the Battle of Troy, Ancient Warfare and Chest Trauma | |
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| Marketos: Parallels Between Aesclepian and Hippocratic Medicine on the Island of Kos | |
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| Appelboom: Sport and Medicine in Ancient Greece | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Recommended Readings | |
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| Rome and Byzantium | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Soranus: Gynecology, Book 1 | |
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| Who are the best midwives? | |
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| Whether conception is healthy | |
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| What are the signs whether the fetus is male or female? | |
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| What is the best time for fruitful intercourse? | |
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| How to recognize the newborn that is worth rearing | |
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| Galen: Galen on Food and Diet | |
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| Jellinke: Drinkers and Alcoholics in Ancient Rome Scarborough | |
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| Roman Medicine and the Legions a Reconsideration | |
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| Diamandopoulou-Drummond: Four Different Ways of Philanthropic Aid to the Blind in Medieval Eastern Christendom | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Questions to Consider | |
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| Recommended readings | |
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| Europe, 500-1500 | |
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| Itroduction | |
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| Timelin | |