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A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities

By J. C. McKeown

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About the book

There are few disciplines as exciting and forward-looking as medicine. Unfortunately, however, many modern practitioners have rather lost sight of the origins of their discipline. A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities aspires to make good this lapse by taking readers back to the early days of Western medicine in ancient Greece and Rome. Quoting the actual words of ancient authors, often from texts which have never been translated into English, it gives aglimpse into the beginnings of such fie...Show more

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9780190610432

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Oxford University Press Inc

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2017

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1

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A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities

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Hardcover

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