Ancient Medicine

This 3rd edition of the unsurpassed and widely acclaimed Ancient Medicine is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the medicine of the ancient world available. New subtitles and a chronology will make for easier student consultation, and the bibliography is substantially revised and updated, providing avenues for future student research.Now revised and extended in light of new research, it includes recently discovered texts made accessible for the first time, as well as updates based on new RNA analysis.More information is included on very early Greek medicine and medicine in Late Antiquity.An essential read for all those with an interest in history of ancient medicine and science by a renowned author and a scholar at the forefront of research in the field.