Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine

ASKLEPIOS The ancient Greek Deity of Healing. From Wellcome's Medical Diary (Copyright) By permission of Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
Editor of the New Zealand Medical Journal, Honorary Surgeon to the Wellington Hospital, New Zealand.
Illustrated
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This Milford House edition is an unabridged republication of the edition of 1914.
Published in 1971 by MILFORD HOUSE INC. Boston, Massachusetts
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 76-165987 Standard Book Number 0-87821-036-9
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TO MY FATHER

I was stimulated to write these Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by a recent sojourn in the south-eastern part of Europe. The name of the book defines, to some extent, its limitations, for my desire has been to give merely a general outline of the most important stages in the advancement of the healing art in the two Empires to which modern civilization is most deeply indebted. There are a few great works on the history of medicine by continental writers, such, for instance, as those by the German writers, Baas, Sprengel, and Puschmann, but, generally speaking, the subject has been much neglected.