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The healing hand : man and wound in the ancient world
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"A Commonwealth Fund book."
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- Creator
- Guido Majno
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1975
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 571 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674383302, 0674383303
- OCLC
- ocm01418536
- "A Commonwealth Fund book."
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 425-469.
- Prelude -- Asu (Mesopotamia) -- Swnw (Egypt) -- Iatros (Greece) -- Perfumes of Arabia -- Yang I (China) -- Alexandria the great -- Medicus (Rome) -- Galen - and into the night
Subjects
- Medicine, Ancient.
- Surgery -- History.
- Wounds and injuries -- Treatment -- History.
- History of Medicine.
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- History, Ancient.
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- Medicine, Arabic.
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- Medicine, Ayurvedic.
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- Medicine, East Asian Traditional.
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- Paleopathology.
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- Wounds and Injuries -- history.
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- Wounds and Injuries -- therapy.
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