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Hardcover The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates Book
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ISBN: 0465093442

ISBN13: 9780465093441

The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates

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A preeminent classics scholar revises the history of medicine.
Medical thinking and observation were radically changed by the ancient Greeks, one of their great legacies to the world. In the fifth century BCE, a Greek doctor put forward his clinical observations of individual men, women, and children in a collection of case histories known as the Epidemics. Among his working principles was the famous maxim "Do no harm." In The...

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