The influence of Greek Medical practices dating back to the fifth century B.
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It is essential reading as a new synthesis for all students of the history of medicine..
This book charts the influence of this tradition through twenty centuries, examining it in its social and historical context.
By the nineteenth century, however, this tradition no longer carried the same force or occupied so central a position within medicine.
The influence of Greek medicine spread from the Aegean basin to the rest of the Mediterranean region, to Europe, and then to European settlements overseas.
As one guiding thread it takes the system of Medical ideas that, in large part, went back to the Greeks of the fifth century B.
C., and played a major role in the understanding and treatment of health and disease.
This text is designed to cover the history of Western medicine from Classical Antiquity to 1800. has had an immeasurable impact on the development of medicine in the West over the subsequent centuries.
The influence of Greek Medical practices dating back to the fifth century B.
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