Neurological concepts in ancient Greek medicine / Thomas M. Walshe III, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Chief, General Neurology Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
By: Walshe, Thomas M [author.].
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]Description: xiv, 204 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780190218560 (hbk : alk. paper).Subject(s): Neurology -- history -- Greece | Greek World -- history -- Greece | History, Ancient -- GreeceGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RC339.A1 W35 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000009958 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Neurologic concepts in the Homeric epics -- Hippocrates and the Corpus Hippocraticum -- A neurology text before there was neurology -- On the sacred disease -- Surgical texts and diagnosis guides -- Wounds of the head -- Hippocratic medicine and neurologic conditions -- Ancient Greek ideas of cognition -- The separation of the nerves from other fibers -- The Hellenistic pursuit of neuroanatomy -- The Hippocratic oath and a modern digression.