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Rīga : Liepnieks & Rītups, 2003.
Description
This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb fractures, and the section called The Nature of Man describes the physiological theories of the time. The book ends with a discussion of embryology and a brief anatomical description of the heart.
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This is a collection of writings predominately composed between 430 and 330 BC, which represent the beginning of systemic medical inquiry in ancient Greece.
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Greek (Ancient)
Physical description
449 p.; 23 cm
Pages
449
ISBN
9984960919 / 9789984960913
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