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602 entries match Ancient [K01.400.470]
2012
#12805
Well-Mannered medicine: Medical ethics and etiquette in classical Ayurveda.
2013
#7691
Galen's psychological writings: Avoiding distress, Character traits, The diagnosis and treatment of the affections and errors peculiar to each person's soul, The capacites of the soul depend upon the mixtures of the body. Edited by P. N. Singer. Translated with introductions and notes by Vivian Nutton, Daniel Davies and P. N. Singer.
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
In 2005 a long lost treatise by Galen, entitled Περι αλυπιας (Avoiding distress), was discovered in the Monastery of the Vlatades (Moni Vlatadon) in Thessaloniki, central Macedonia, Greece. The manuscript, identified …
2013
#8300
Medicine and society in Ptolemaic Egypt.
2013
#8513
BabMed - Babylonian medicine: Corpora
http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/babmed/Corpora/index.html "On the following pages, there are several draft versions: Assyrian Medical Texts (AMT), Part 1, Tf. 1-50 Assyrian Medical Texts (AMT), Part 2, Tf. 51-107 …
2013
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Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome III, 1re partie: Pronostic. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna, Anargyros Anastasiou, and Caroline Magdelaine.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
This treatise on prognostication in acute diseases was possibly written by Hippocrates himself; or if not, by a physician close to him, sometime during the second half of the 5th century, before 410 BCE.
2013
#10878
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in bats, Saudi Arabia.
Dated November 2013. The authors collected bat feces from sites in Bisha, Saudi Arabia found less than 1-12 kilometers from the place of employment or home of an index case-patient there, and performed total nucleic a…
2014
#7503
The tools of Asclepius: Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.
The first major work on the subject since Milne's Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times (1907).
2014
#8296
History of toxicology and environmental health. Toxicology in antiquity. 2 vols. Edited by Philip Wexler.
2014
#8509
Sourcebook for ancient Mesopotamian medicine.
2014
#8515
The healing goddess Gula: Towards an understanding of ancient Babylonian medicine.
2014
#10879
Brief report: Evidence for camel-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus.
Dated June 26, 2014. Using viral genomics and PCR, the Saudi authors demonstrated that full genome sequences of a man, and the camel he had contact with, were identical. Available from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks t…
2015
#7502
Patients and healers in the High Roman Empire.
2015
#8290
The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes
Razi's Kitab al-Hawi, a vast medical-pharmaceutical encyclopedia, was compiled from multiple sources. For each identified source this study provides Razi's Arabic text with an English translation. When possible, the o…
2015
#8291
The Alexandrian summaries of Galen’s On critical days. Editions and translations of the two versions of the JAWĀMIʿ, with an introduction and notes by Gerrit Bos and Y. Tzvi Langermann.
"Galen's impact on Islamic civilization, mainly on medicine but also on physics and philosophy, was enormous. His most important books were mediated through "summaries" which not only shortened, but in some cases also…
2015
#8431
The Hippocratic Corpus: Content and context.
2015
#8516
Healing magic and evil demons: Canonical Udug-Hul incantations. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Texten und Untersuchungen, Vol. 8.)
2015
#9429
Bones: Orthopaedic pathologies in Roman Imperial age.
2015
#12201
An edition, translation and commentary of Mustio's Gynaecia (Unpublished doctoral thesis).
This dissertation represents "a new critical edition of Mustio’s Gynaecia, the first since Valentin Rose’s 1882 volume for the Teubner series. It is accompanied by a facing page translation, the first in English, and …
2016
#7518
A census of Greek medical manuscripts: From Byzantium to the Renaissance.
An amended and updated index of Diels' catalogue (No. 6767), and a list of items missed or overlooked in Diels, or located since.
2016
#9010
Quintus Serenus, Medizinischer Rat (Liber medicinalis). Edited and translated into German by Kai Brodersen.
2016
#9599
Ancient botany.
2016
#9610
Galen: On the constitution of the art of medicine. The art of medicine. A method of medicine to Glaucon. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston.
2016
#9812
L'Anonyme de Londres. P.: Lit.Lond. 165, Brit.Libr. Inv. 137. Un papyrus médical grec du Ier siècle après J.-C. Edited by Antonio Ricciardetto.
Edition of the Greek text with French translation and introduction. Apart from minor changes listed on page vii, the work reproduces the previous publication by the author in the collection Papyrologia Leodensia (Lièg…
2016
#10012
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome IV, 1ère partie: Epidémies I et III. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France.)
Greek text with facing French translation. Epidemics I and III, by a physician of Hippocrates' milieu, possibly by Hippocrates himself, sometime around 410 BCE
2016
#12312
Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece: From antiquity to the present. Edited by Steven M. Obewrhelman.
2017
#8573
GALENO: Catalogo delle Traduzioni Latine.
http://www.galenolatino.com/index.php?id=2&clean=1 This electronic bibliography covers Latin translations of Galen (129-216) and the pseudo-Galen from Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, produced from the sixth to the seventeen…
2017
#9808
La médecine de guerre en Grèce ancienne.
The most comprehensive study of this subject.
2017
#9821
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XVI: Problèmes hippocratiques. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna et Alessia Guardasole. (Collection des universités de France).
Greek text with facing French translation of 130 problems (some in the way of Hippocratic medicine and others not) compiled by an anonymous Christian author from the Byzantine period, 7th to 10th/11th century.
2017
#10694
The Fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire.
2017
#10752
The art and science of healing from antiquity to the Renaissance. Exhibition catalogue Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - University of Michigan Library 10 February - 30 April 2017.
Finely illustrated and annotated catalogue including objects and rare books and manuscripts collected by Le Roy Crummer, Lewis Stephen Pilcher, and Campbell Bonner. Until publication of this catalogue material in the …
2017
#11033
Prostitution in the ancient Greek world.
2017
#11038
Hippocrate, Tome XII, 4e partie, Femmes stériles, Maladies des jeunes filles, Superfétation, Excision du foetus. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Bourbon.
Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of four gynecological treatises from the Hippocratic Collection, from c. 470-350 BCE: De sterilibus = On sterility; De virginum morbis = On disea…
2017
#11088
A history of the mind and mental health in classical Greek medical thought.
2017
#12840
Reinventing Hippocrates. Edited by David Cantor.
"The name of Hippocrates has been invoked as an inspiration of medicine since antiquity, and medical practitioners have turned to Hippocrates for ethical and social standards. While most modern commentators accept tha…
2017
#12847
The Etruscans and the history of dentistry: The golden smile through the ages.
2018
#9613
GALEN: Hygiene. Books 1-4, Books 5-6. Thrasybulus on exercise with a small ball. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston. 2 vols.
2018
#9711
Médecins et magiciens á la cour du pharaon. Une étude du papyrus médical Louvre E 32847.
Transcription, French translation, and study of this papyrus dating from the reign of Amenophis II (1424-1398 BCE). The papyrus, written for teaching purposes, concerns diagnosis of pathology in the elderly, tumors (i…
2018
#10540
Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud.
"... discusses interactions between Ayurveda and Persian medical culture in South Asia. It presents, for the first time, a study of the Persian translation movement of Ayurvedic sources that took place from the fourte…
2018
#11089
Mental illness in ancient medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina. Edited by Chiara Thumiger and Peter Singer.
2018
#11831
Greek medical literature and its readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos.
2018
#11938
The Oxford handbook of science and medicine in the classical world. Edited by Paul T. Keyser and John Scarborough.
Showcases the work of forty-six scholars from around the world, and comprises an Introduction followed by forty-nine chapters, concluded with a general index. Each chapter is followed by a bibliography featuring multi…
2018
#12538
Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Studies in honor of Markham J. Geller. Edited by Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludek Vacin.
"The [34] contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and practices of diagnosing and healing diverse physical ailments and mental distress. The festschrift contains both critical editions …
2018
#12625
The Cambridge companion to Hippocrates. Edited by Peter E. Pormann.
2019
#11056
A spotlight on the history of ancient Egyptian medicine.
A general survey with chapters that focus on the ancient Egyptian understanding and treatments of cardiovascular disease, as well as a description of herbal medicines used by ancient Egypt medical practitioners and ph…
2019
#11073
The rhetoric of medicine: Lessons on professionalism from ancient Greece.
A collaboration between a classicist (Nicholson) and a neurosurgeon (Selden). The text is divided into 7 chapters covering the general topics of "body, money, competition, restriction, autonomy, mentoring, self."
2019
#11080
Brill's companion to the reception of Galen. Edited by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser.
This collective work shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticized across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe …
2019
#11833
Greek medical papyri: Text, context, hypertext. Edited by Niccola Reggiani.
2019
#13093
Roman domestic medical practice in central Italy from the Middle Republic to the Early Empire.
2020
#12537
Mesopotamian eye disease texts: The Nineveh treatise.
"This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, languishing in British Museum archives since the 19th century, is pr…
2020
#13128
Maimonides, commentary on Hippocrates’ aphorisms: a new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, with critical editions of the medieval Hebrew translations by Gerrit Bos. 2 vols. (The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, Vols. 14.1, 14.2.)
"Hippocrates’ Aphorisms enjoyed great popularity in the ancient and medieval world and, according to Maimonides, it was Hippocrates’ most useful work as it contained aphorisms, which every physician should know by hea…