Early Civilizations
Subtitle: Prehistoric Times to 500 C.E.
By: Kate Kelly
Series: The History of Medicine
Publisher: Facts On File
Published: August 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780816072057
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Medicine, Ancient
Description: The story of early medicine is one of magic and sorcery, religion and prayers, shamans and surgeons, and ingenuity and experimentation. All manner of successes and failures also dot the backdrop of early medicine. The health challenges of the time were many, ranging from near-fatal accidents to a wide variety of mysterious illnesses. Despite very little understanding of how the body worked or why people became sick, primitive people still devised successful methods to help heal the ill and injured. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xiii; label: Introduction
pagenum: xiv; label: Chapter 1
title: Paleopathology: The Study of Disease in Prehistoric Times
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 2
title: What the Mummies Reveal
pagenum: 27; label: Chapter 3
title: Indian Influence on Medicine
pagenum: 51; label: Chapter 4
title: The Origins of Chinese Medicine
pagenum: 70; label: Chapter 5
title: The Ancient Greeks and What they Learned
pagenum: 88; label: Chapter 6
title: Hippocrates and the Importance of Medical Observation and Documentation
pagenum: 106; label: Chapter 7
title: Galen: The Physician whose Theories Dominated Medicine for 1,500 Years
pagenum: 121; label: Chapter 8
title: Medical Progress During the Roman Empire
pagenum: 137; label: Appendix
title: The Translated Text of the Hippocratic Oath
pagenum: 155; label: Chronology
pagenum: 157; label: Glossary
pagenum: 161; label: Further Resources
pagenum: 164; label: Index
pagenum: 167