Greek Medicine Practice at Ancient Rome: The Physician Molecularist Asclepiades
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Greek Medicine Practice at Ancient Rome: The Physician Molecularist Asclepiades
Background: In the pre-Hellenistic period, the concept of medicine was not well-defined. Usually, a disease was considered as a divine punishment and its treatment was devolved to the priests who asked for healing from the divinities. The only job that could be compared to medical practice was a kind of itinerant medicine, derived from the Egyptian therapeutic tradition based only on practical ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medicines
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2305-6320
DOI: 10.3390/medicines4040092