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Roman medicine / Audrey Cruse.

Title
Roman medicine / Audrey Cruse.
Author
Cruse, Audrey
Publication
Stroud, Gloucestershire : Tempus, 2004.

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Description
256 p. : ill., maps, plates, photogr.; 25 cm.
Summary
Audrey Cruse looks at the many different aspects of medicine and health in the Roman Empire including doctors, hospitals, temple medicine and skeletal evidence, particularly in Roman Britain. [from publisher's advertisement].
Subject
  • To 1500
  • Roman World
  • Roman World > history
  • History, Ancient
  • Medical care > Rome
  • Medicine, Greek and Roman
  • Medical care > Great Britain > History > To 1500
  • United Kingdom
  • Great Britain > History > Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D
  • United Kingdom
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Greek cult and medicine -- Greek science and medicine -- Materia medica, or the materials of medicine -- Roman health and hygiene: the buildings -- Roman diseases and healing I: cult -- Roman diseases and healing II: 'medicaments, cauteries and operations' -- Meeting the Roman patient -- Physicians and healers in the Roman world.
ISBN
0752414615
OCLC
  • 56414972
  • SCSB-12182855
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library