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Did prehistoric people and the ancient civilizations understand health and disease? Did they make any advances in medical knowledge? This book explains how humans faced new challenges when they began to live together in large communities. It shows how some physicians realized that disease might have natural causes, not supernatural ones, and so could be treated by natural methods and prevented by improving public health.

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Publié par	Capstone Global Library
Date de parution	10 septembre 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781406256437
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	15 Mo

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MEDICINE THROUGH THE AGES ANCIENT MEDICINE

MEDICINE THROUGH THE AGES

ANCIENT MEDICINE Andrew Langley

Raintree is an imprint of Capstone Global Library Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales having its registered ofîce at 7 Pilgrim Street, London, EC4V 6LB – Registered company number: 6695582

Text © Capstone Global Library Limited 2013 First published in hardback in 2013 The moral rights of the proprietor have been asserted.

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Edited by Andrew Farrow, Adam Miller, and Vaarunika Dharmapala Designed by Philippa Jenkins Original illustrations © Capstone Global Library Ltd 2013 Illustrations by Oxford Designers & Illustrators Picture research by Ruth Blair Originated by Capstone Global Library Ltd Printed and bound in China by Leo Paper Products Ltd

ISBN 978 1 406 23870 9 (hardback) 16 15 14 13 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Langley, Andrew. Ancient medicine. -- (Medicine through the ages) 610.9’3-dc22 A full catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce photographs: Alamy pp. 17 (© Hemis), 18 (© Prisma Bildagentur AG); Getty Images pp. 6 (Jane Sweeney/Robert Harding), 7 (SSPL), 9, 10, 13 (The Bridgeman Art Library), 20 (AFP), 28 (Hulton Archive), 29 (DEA/G. Dagli Orti), 39 (Danita Delimont/Gallo Images); Photolibrary pp. 15 (Still Pictures), 24 (Norbert Reismann/Doc-Stock), 27 (Leonardo Diaz Romero/ Age Fotostock), 30 (Robert Harding Travel), 38 (Photoservice Electa), 40 (Imagebroker RF/Guenter Fischer); Science Photo Library pp. 16 (Mark De Fraeye), 34 (Sheila Terry); Shutterstock pp. 5 (© Stuart Elett), 8 (© Efremova Irina); Topfoto p. 12 (Charles Walker); Wellcome Library pp.14, 19 (Mark de Fraeye); Wellcome Library, London pp. 11, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37.

Cover photograph of a Pompeiian fresco showing the battle wounds of Aeneas, from the Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy, reproduced with permission of Science Photo Library (Sheila Terry).

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Contents

The beginnings of medicine . . . . . . 4 Egypt and the Middle East. . . . . . . 8 India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Rome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Find out more . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Some words are shown in bold,like this. You can find out what they mean by looking in the glossary. You can also look out for them in the “Word Station” box at the bottom of each page.

EUROPE

Atlantic Ocean

The beginnings of medicine

The practices and theories we use todiagnose, cure, and prevent disease are known as medicine. Nobody knows for certain when it began, but it is probably as old as we are. It is likely that there has been illness ever since human society started about 2 million years ago. In their search for food and shelter, early humans would have been injured, caught infections, or suffered from other diseases. So, very soon, they started to develop ways of treating these problems.

Epidauros Rome Pergamum Olympia Kos Athens Mediterranean Sea

AFRICA

R Alexandria N i l e

Babylon

H im a la y a s

Indian Ocean

This map of Europe, north Africa, and Asia shows the areas covered in this book.

WORD STATION diagnose identify the nature of a disease or injury through examination

Ancient Roman Empire (c.AD100)

Assyria (c.820BCE)

Ancient Greece

Ancient Egypt