Healing Hand Man and Wound in the Ancient World

Name: Healing Hand Man and Wound in the Ancient World
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ISBN: 9780674383319

ISBN-10: 0674383311

ISBN-13: 9780674383319

Edition: 1975

Authors: Guido Majno

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This journey to the beginnings of the physician's art brings to life the civilizations of the ancient world--Egypt of the Pharaohs, Greece at the time of Hippocrates, Rome under the Caesars, the India of Ashoka, and China as Mencius knew it. Probing the documents and artifacts of the ancient world with a scientist's mind and a detective's eye, Guido Majno pieces together the difficulties people faced in the effort to survive their injuries, as well as the odd, chilling, or inspiring ways in which they rose to the challenge. In asking whether the early healers might have benefited their patients, or only hastened their trip to the grave, Dr. Majno uncovered surprising answers by testing…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 1975
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 598
Size: 6.75" wide x 11.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English




Prelude



The Asu (Mesopotamia)



The Swnw (Egypt)



The Iatros (Greece)



The Perfumes of Arabia



The Yang I (China)



The Vaidya (India)



Alexandria the Great



The Medicus (Rome)



Galen--and into the Night


Bibliography


Abbreviations and Phonetic


Notations


Notes to the Text


Notes to the Illustrations


Index