Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9780861592326
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2023
Imprint: British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Illustrations: 120
Description:
Strategies for the preservation of health and for the prevention and treatment of illness and disease have been discerned in the surviving written records and material remains of most societies since earliest times. Compared to the prehistoric past the evidence for the ancient Greek and Roman periods is comparatively full, though still sparse or lacking in some key areas. Most accounts of the history of Greek and Roman medicine are based on ancient medical texts.