Greek and Roman Medicine Helen King

Hermaphroditism in Greek and Roman antiquity.

Since antiquity hermaphrodites have fascinated the mind and excited the imagination. In this paper, such subjects are discussed as legends about the nativity of Hermaphroditus, son of Hermes and Aphrodite, the social status of these bisexual beings, and their fate in Greek-Roman antiquity.

Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times

This most interesting monograph was presented as a thesis which formed part of the examination for the degree of M. D. of the University of Aberdeen, and it gained for its author "Highest Honours." The object of the book is to lay before the student of medical history an account of the various instruments with which the ancient Greeks and Roman surgeons prosecuted their craft. To understand any...

Roman Medicine

Librarian of the National Library ofWales, and used to illustrate the lecture at Cardiff. The initial article is a scholarly account of Thomas Baskerville, Elizabethan apothecary of Exeter, by Margery Rowe and G. E. Trease. To a Welsh reviewer, another pleasing feature of the Transactions is that it has been printed by J. D. Lewis and Sons Ltd., Gomerian Press, Llandysul. They have already done...

Some Roman medicine.

SOME ROMAN MEDICINE IT HAS long been recognized that in the Roman Empire great advances were made in medical knowledge, and that the best organized medical system in the ancient world was that of the Roman armed forces." Recent work has provided interesting examples of Roman medicine as used by the army. For some time it has been known that some of the medicines and medical preparations prescri...

Greek medicine