Neurological Concepts in Ancient Greek Medicine
Subtitle: Before the Current ERA
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780190218560
Subjects: Neurology; History, ancient; Greece, history
Description: Neurologic concepts in the Homeric epics -- Hippocrates and the Corpus Hippocraticum -- A neurology text before there was neurology -- On the sacred disease -- Surgical texts and diagnosis guides -- Wounds of the head -- Hippocratic medicine and neurologic conditions -- Ancient Greek ideas of cognition -- The separation of the nerves from other fibers -- The Hellenistic pursuit of neuroanatomy -- The Hippocratic oath and a modern digression