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Title: Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine

Author: James Sands Elliott

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OUTLINES OF
GREEK AND ROMAN MEDICINE

[Illustration: From Wellcome's Medical Diary (Copyright) By permission
of Burroughs Wellcome & Co.

ASKLEPIOS

The ancient Greek Deity of Healing.]

OUTLINES OF
GREEK AND ROMAN MEDICINE

BY

JAMES SANDS ELLIOTT, M.D., Ch.B.(Edin.)

_Editor of the "New Zealand Medical Journal,"
Honorary Surgeon to the Wellington Hospital, New Zealand._

Illustrated

milford house inc.
boston

This Milford House edition is an unabridged republication of the edition
of 1914.

Published in 1971 by MILFORD HOUSE INC. Boston, Massachusetts

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 76-165987
Standard Book Number 0-87821-036-9

Printed in the U.S.A.

TO MY FATHER

PREFACE.

I was stimulated to write these Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by
a recent sojourn in the south-eastern part of Europe. The name of the
book defines, to some extent, its limitations, for my desire has been to
give merely a general outline of the most important stages in the
advancement of the healing art in the two Empires to which modern
civilization is most deeply indebted. There are a few great works on the
history of medicine by continental writers, such, for instance, as those
by the German writers, Baas, Sprengel, and Puschmann, but, generally
speaking, the subject has been much neglected.

I cherish the hope that this little work may appeal to doctors, to
medical students, and to those of the public who are interested in a
narration of the progress of knowledge, and who realize that the
investigation of the body in health and disease has been one of the most
important features of human endeavour.

The medical profession deserves censure for