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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Note to the Reader ix
Acknowledgments xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
1 Sources and scope 1
2 Patterns of disease 19
3 Before Hippocrates 37
4 Hippocrates, the Hippocratic Corpus and the defining of medicine 53
5 Hippocratic theories 72
6 Hippocratic practices 87
7 Religion and medicine in fifth- and fourth-century Greece 103
8 From Plato to Praxagoras 115
9 Alexandria, anatomy and experimentation 128
10 Hellenistic medicine 140
11 Rome and the transplantation of Greek medicine 157
12 The consequences of empire: pharmacology, surgery and the Roman army 171

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Publication Information: Book Title: Ancient Medicine. Contributors: Vivian Nutton - author. Publisher: Routledge. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 2004. Page Number: v.
    
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