Doctors and Diseases in the Roman Empire
by Ralph Jackson
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Topics include the effects of disease and medicine on people at different levels of Roman society, the role of the physician in the Roman army, contraception, drugs, surgery, and magic. Jackson (curator, Department of Pre-historic and Romano-British antiquities, British Museum) adds evidence from excavations, sculptures, reliefs, vases, and wall-paintings to the testimony of ancient medical authors.Tags
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- 610.937 — Technology Medicine & health Medicine and health History, geographic treatment, biography Ancient World Italian Peninsula and adjacent territories to 476
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- R138.5 .J33 — Medicine Medicine (General) History of medicine. Medical expeditions
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