The Hippocratic treatise On glands /
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This is a new edition, with translation, introduction and commentary, of the Hippocratic treatise On Glands . Through a close analysis of both content and expression, the text is interpreted and situated in the wider context of ancient medical writing.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [59]-64) and indexes. :
9789047429074 :
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Death on the Nile : disease and the demography of Roman Egypt /
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A pioneering comparative and multidisciplinary study of the interaction between local disease environments and demographic structure, this book breaks new ground in reconstructing the population history of Egypt during the Roman period and beyond. Drawing on a wide range of sources from ancient census data and funerary commemorations to modern medical accounts, statistics and demographic models, the author explores the nature of premodern disease patterns, challenges existing assumptions about ancient age structure, and develops a new methodology for the assessment of Egyptian poplation size. Contextualising the study of Roman Egypt within the broader framework of premodern demography, ecology and medical history, this is the first attempt to interpret and explain demographic conditions in antiquity in terms of the underlying causes of disease and death.
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1 online resource (xxx, 286 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-286) and index. :
9789004350946 :
0169-8958 :
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De morbis acutis et chroniis /
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This volume is the first complete critical edition of the Greek medical work of the 1st century A.D. on acute and chronic diseases, by an anonymous writer commonly known as Anonymus Parisinus Darembergii sive Fuchsii. The work includes an introduction, a critical text with apparatus and an English translation accompanied by a commentary on textual, linguistic and factual problems. There is an index of Greek words and an index of drugs and foods. This edition is important both because it is the first complete edition (the former, by Fuchs, being confined to the first half of the work), and because it is based on all four manuscripts that preserve the work (Fuchs employed two of them).
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1 online resource (xxviii, 375 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-266) and indexes. :
9789004377370 :
0925-1421 ; :
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The human brain in ancient Egypt : a medical and historical re-evaluation of its function and importance /
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This text provides a medical and historical re-evaluation of the function and importance of the human brain in ancient Egypt. The study evaluates whether treatment of the brain during anthropogenic mummification was linked to medical concepts of the brain.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (86 pages) : illustrations (colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803274782 (PDF ebook) :