Minorities in Graeco Roman Alexandria: A Religious or a Racial Issue?

Indic Ideas in the Graeco-Roman World

It is common to speak of “civilizational ideas”, but do they exist? For example, are the dośas of Āyurveda peculiarly Indian since they are a tripartite classification that is basic to the Vedic system of knowledge? Plato introduced a similar system based on three humours into Greek medicine, with a central role to the idea of breath (pneuma in Greek). But this centrality of breath (prān. a in ...

Medical practice in Graeco-roman antiquity.

The roots of modern medicine can be traced back to the 5th century BC when Hippocratic rational medicine originated on the Greek islands of Cos and Cnidos. In this study we examine the way in which practitioners conducted their profession in Graeco-Roman times, as well as their training. Medical training was by way of apprenticeship with recognized doctors, but no qualifying examinations existe...

Tumours and cancers in Graeco-Roman times.

In Graeco-Roman times all tumours (Greek: onkoi, abnormal swellings) were considered to be of inflammatory origin, the result of unfavourable humoural fluxes, and caused by an extravascular outpouring of fluid into tissue spaces. The neoplastic nature of tumours is a more recent concept, barely two centuries old. In Hippocratic literature tumours were mainly classified as karkinômata, phumata, ...

Medical Malpractice: A Preventable or Inevitable Issue

The Diatritus and Therapy in Graeco-roman Medicine.

DAVID LEITH The Classical Quarterly / Volume 58 / Issue 02 / December 2008, pp 581 ­ 600 DOI: 10.1017/S0009838808000657, Published online: 16 December 2008 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0009838808000657 How to cite this article: DAVID LEITH (2008). THE DIATRITUS AND THERAPY IN GRAECO­ROMAN MEDICINE. The Classical Quarterly,58, pp 581­600 doi:10.1017/S000983880800...