Original scientific paper

PHYSICIAN IN THE CLASSIC PERIOD: EPIGRAPHIC TESTIMONIES

Laura Musajo Somma
Sabrina Veneziani
Alfredo Musajo Somma

Abstract

Medicine began to develop as scientific discipline in ancient Greece.
Hippocratic medical schools spread all over the Mediterranean
area and people who practiced medicine were reminded to posterity
through epigraphic burial stones. Medical practice and personal skills
were acknowledged in short sentences that are greatly helpful to understand
past medicine and its pioneers. In this article selected burial
stones dedicated to ancient physicians were examined to offer to
scholars both of medicine and classical studies a deep insight into
medical practice of the past.

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Hrčak ID:

102593

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/102593

Publication date:

15.6.2004.

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