Facets

1991 CE

#8343

A Hellenistic treatise on poisonous animals (the "Theriaca" of Nicander of Colophon): A contribution to the history of toxicology.

"... the authors review all the ancient treatises, ranged in chronological order, that cite Nicander at greater or lesser length, from Celsus up to Paul of Aegina - not less than thirteen authors. . . . Next follows a…

2000 CE

#11092

Asclepius, the god of medicine.

1544 CE

#4406.1

Chirurgia e graeco in latinum conversa.

This elegantly printed and illustrated small folio included 210 text woodcuts, most probably after drawings by the school of Francesco Salviati (Francesco de'Rossi). It was issued from the press operated by Pierre Gau…

2000 CE

#8314

Cuneiform Monographs 14: Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. by M. Stol with a chapter by F.A.M. Wiggermann.

1917 CE

#9988

Das homerische Tiersystem und seine Bedeutung für die zoologische Systematik des Aristoteles.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1951 CE

#7164

Der Arzneikunde der Kopten.

1929 CE

#9987

Die Ärƶtlichen Kenntnisse in Ilias und Odyssee.

Medical knowledge in the Iliad and Odyssey. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1922 CE

#9985

Die homerische Medizin. Eine medizin-kulturhistorische Skizze.

Medicine in Homer.

2005 CE

#8295

From monastery to hospital: Christian monasticism and the transformation of health care in Late Antiquity.

1478 CE

#7086

Halieutica, sive de piscatu. [Translated by Lorenzo Lippi, with recipes for cooking added by Lippi.]

The didactic poem on fish and fishing by Oppian of Anazarbus, a 2nd-century Greco-Roman poet, survived the Middle Ages essentially in its entirety, consisting of 3500 lines in Greek. The poem was dedicated to the empe…

1991 CE

#8125

Hippocrates in a world of pagans and Christians.

1865 CE

#6474

La médecine dans Homère, our études d'archéologique sur les médecins, l'anatomie, la physiologie, la chirugie et la médecine dans les poèmes Homériques.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1998 CE

#8183

Les maladies dans l'art antique.

2004 CE

#8312

Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine. Edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff and Marten Stol.

The first comparison of medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world. The authors treat early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen…

1885 CE

#13835

Médecine et moeurs de l'ancienne Rome d'après les poètes latins.

Translated into English as Medicine and morals of ancient Rome according to the Latin poets (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Lancet-clinic, 1901). Digital facsimile of the 1885 edition from Google Books at this link. Facsimile…

2012 CE

#11048

Medical prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical medicine and pharmacology in medieval Egypt. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 4.

1999 CE

#9810

Medicina antiqua. Codex Vindobonensis 93. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Introduction by Peter Murray Jones, commentary by Franz Unterkircher. Manuscripts in Miniature, No. 4.

Color reproduction, reduced in size by one-third, of "a compendium of popular Late Antique texts brought together in the 6th century. It contains writings on herbs and materia medica by authors heavily reliant on the …

1996 CE

#9435

Medicine, society and faith in the ancient and medieval worlds.

1867 CE

#8210

Review of the history of medicine. 2 vols.

Vol. 1, Part 1: "Primitive period among the Asiatic nations," i.e. Hindus. Vol. 2, Part 1: "Ancient state of medicine among the Hindus (continued)". Part 1: "Review of the Buddhist systems of medicine." Part 3: "Revie…

1988 CE

#8837

The body and society: Men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity.

"A groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lif…

1981 CE–1986 CE

#8324

The complete works, translated into English by Charles Allison Behr. 2 vols.

"The six books of Sacred Tales “ are in a class apart. A record of revelations made to Aristides in dreams by the healing god Asclepius…they are of major importance, both as evidence for the practices ass…

1907 CE

#87

The fragments of Empedocles. Translated into English verse by William Ellergy Leonard.

Empedocles was a Greek philosopher, statesman, physician and reformer. His poem on Nature originally ran to 5,000 lines, of which only 400 are now left. He believed in four ultimate elements—fire, air, water and…