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'A worthy enterprise ... the result is a masterful evaluation of health and disease ... Galen would have been pleased.' W.F Bynum, The Times Higher Education Supplement
'[A] near-masterpiece,Ancient Medicine is a huge quarry, fit for mining and exploitation by those who have the proper equipment.' - BMCR
'Vivian Nutton has written a magical history … [that] has done the worlds of classical scholarship and medical history a true service' – Julie Laskaris, University of Richmond, Virginia
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- Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series
- Hardcover: 504 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (May 10, 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415086116
- ISBN-13: 978-0415086110
- Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 6.3 x 9.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
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It has only been within the past couple of centuries that medical doctors made a real difference. But prospective patients, and the eagerness to be free of ailments, long preceded scientific study of disease and the discovery of such things as bacteria. Originally, illnesses were thought to be produced by demons who hated us, or by gods who loved us, sending them for our correction. (Such an attitude continues in those who insist that illnesses such as AIDS are among God's tools for reforming us.) We are used to medical breakthroughs these days, but just as the greatest of technological steps was our ancient harnessing of fire, the greatest of our medical advances was the realization that disease was not supernatural. It had patterns of cause and could be controlled at least to some extent by physical, rather than spiritual, steps toward eradication. These assertions by the ancient Greeks and how their ideas of illness and cure were transferred throughout the ancient world are the subjects of _Ancient Medicine_ (Routledge) by Vivian Nutton. A professor of the history of medicine, Nutton is extremely well qualified to make this large and academic summary; the many quotations here from ancient Greek and Latin, for instance, are almost all his own translations. There are plenty of footnotes, and references to ancient texts which have not been previously available, but this is a book that is surprisingly lively and readable for an academic tome.
If people know anything about ancient medicine, they know the name Hippocrates, and of course Nutton has much to say about him here. Unfortunately, most of what we know is wrong, or at least uncorroborated.
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