CLAS 220: Ancient Medicine
compiled by John Porter, University of Saskatchewan

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Terms

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Links to Relevant Sites Elsewhere on the WWW

Hippocratic Corpus

• Selected Works and Commentary
  • The Oath
  • Aphorisms
  • Instruments of Reduction
  • Of the Epidemics
  • On Airs, Waters, and Places
  • On Ancient Medicine
  • On Fistulae
  • On Fractures
  • On Hemorrhoids
  • On Injuries of the Head
  • On Regimen In Acute Diseases
  • On The Articulations
  • On The Sacred Disease
  • On The Surgery
  • On Ulcers
  • The Book of Prognostics
  • The Law
• The Oath
• The Digital Hippocrates

General Resources

• Antiqua Medicina
• Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua
• Homo Faber: Medicine and Surgery
• The Surgery of Ancient Rome
• Images from the History of Medicine
• National Library of Medicine On-Line Exhibitions
• Taking Precautions: Ancient Oral Contraceptives
• Ancient Roman Medicine
• Statues and Temples of Asclepius, the Ancient Roman Healing God
• The Ancient Medicine Newsletter

Bibliography

For a list of journal abbreviations and call numbers, see the
Journals Relating to Classics in the University of Saskatchewan Libraries page.

Ancient Medicine

• Ackerknecht, E.H. A Short History of Medicine. New York, 1955.
• Adams, F., tr. The Genuine Works Of Hippocrates. New York, 1929.
• Allbutt, T. Greek Medicine in Rome. New York, 1921.
• Allély, A. "Les enfants malformés et handicapés à Rome sous le Principat," REA 106 (2004) 73-102.
• Amundsen, D.W. Medicine, Society, and Faith in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds. Baltimore, 1996.
• Attanasio, A.E.M. "Hippocratic Oath Re-examined," Lancet 346 (July 8, 1995) 130.
• Béliz, M. "The Use of Purple in Cooking, Medicine, and Magic: An Example of Interference by the Imaginary in Rational Discourse," in R. Buxton, ed., From Myth to Reason? (Oxford, 1999) 295-316.
• Bettmann, O.L. A Pictorial History of Medicine. Springfield, 1956.
• Bliquez, L.J. "Classical Prosthetics," Archaeology 36.5 (1983) 25-29.
• Bliquez, L.J. "Greek and Roman Medicine," Archaeology 34.2 (1981) 10-17.
• Bliquez, L.J. Roman Surgical Instruments and Minor Objects in the University of Mississippi. Göteborg, 1988.
• Bonds, C. "The Hippocratic Oath: A Basis for Modern Ethical Standards," JAMA 264 (Nov. 7, 1990) 2311.
• Bremmer M.D.K. The Story of Dentistry from the Dawn of Civilization to the Present. 2nd ed. Brooklyn, 1946.
• Brock, A.J. Greek Medicine, being extracts illustrative of medical writers from Hippocrates to Galen. New York, 1972. (Reprint of 1929 edition.)
• Camac, C.N.B. Imhotep to Harvey: Backgrounds of Medical History. New York, 1931. (Reprinted: Boston, 1973).
• Camp, J.M.F. The Healer's Art: The Doctor through History. New York, 1977.
• Carella, M.J. Matter, Morals and Medicine: The Ancient Greek Origins of Science, Ethics and the Medical Profession. New York, 1991.
• Carrick, P. Medical Ethics in Antiquity: Philosophical Perspectives on Abortion and Euthanasia. Boston, 1985.
• Craik, E.M., ed. Hippocrates: Places in Man. Oxford,, 1998.
• Craik, E.M. "The Hippocratic Treatise On Anatomy," CQ 48 (1998) 135-67.
• Cruse, A. Roman Medicine. Stroud, 2004.
• Curtis, R.I. Garum And Salsamenta: Production And Commerce In Materia Medica. Leiden, 1991.
• Dasen, V. Dwarfs in Ancient Greece. New York, 1994.
• Dean-Jones, L. "The Politics of Pleasure: Female Sexual Appetite in the Hippocratic Corpus," Helios 19.1/2 (1992) 72ff.
• Dean-Jones, L. "Menstrual Bleeding According to the Hippocratics and Aristotle," TAPA 119 (1989) 177-92.
• Demand, N. "Women and Slaves as Hippocratic Patients," in S.R. Joshel and S. Murnaghan, eds., Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture: Differential Equations (London and New York, 1998) 69-84.
• Demand, N. Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece. Baltimore, 1994. [BMCR review]
• Edelstein, L. Ancient Medicine: Selected Papers of Ludwig Edelstein. Baltimore, 1967.
• Edelstein, L. Hippocrates, The Oath. Chicago, 1979.
• Edelstein, L. "The Hippocratic Oath: Text, Translation and Interpretation," Bull. Hist. Med. 19 (suppl.) (1943) 1164.
• Edwards, M.L. "Women and Physical Disability in Ancient Greece," AncW 29.1 (1998) 3-9.
• Eijk, P.J. van der. "The 'Theology' of the Hippocratic Treatise On the sacred Disease," Apeiron 23 (1990) 87-119.
• Elliot, J.S. Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine. Boston, 1978.
• Entralgo, P.L. Therapy of the Word in Ancient Antiquity. New Haven, 1970.
• Fagan, G.G. "Baths and Roman Medicine," in Bathing in Public in the Roman World (Ann Arbor, 1999) 85-103.
• Filer, J. Disease. Austin, 1996.
• Flemming, R. Medicine and the Making of Roman Women. Gender, Nature and Authority from Celsus to Galen. New York, 2000.
• Frier, B.W. "Natural Fertility and Family Limitation in Roman Marriage," CP 89 (1994) 318-33.
• Gamel M.-K. "Non sine caede: Abortion Politics and Poetics in Ovid's Amores," Helios 16 (1989) 183-206.
• Garland, R. The Eye of the Beholder: Deformity and Disability in the Graeco-Roman World. Ithaca, 1995.
• Garrison, E.P. Groaning Tears: Ethical and Dramatic Aspects of Suicide in Greek Tragedy. Kinderhook [NY], 1995.
• Garrison, F.H. An Introduction to the History of Medicine. Philadelphia, 1914.
• Ginge, B., M. Becker, and P. Guldager. "Of Roman Extraction," Archaeology 42.4 (1989) 34-37.
• Gollin, S. "Hippocratic Oath Re-examined," Lancet 346 (July 8, 1995) 130.
• Goodyer, J., tr.; R.T. Gunther, ed. The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides. New York, 1959. [Reprint of 1933 edition.]
• Grant, M. Dieting for an Emperor: A Translation of Books 1 and 4 of Oribasius' Medical Compilations with an Introduction and Commentary. Studies in Ancient Medicine, 15. Leiden, 1997.
• Grant, M. Galen on Food and Diet. New York, 2000.
• Grmek, M.D., ed. Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Cambridge [Mass.], 1999.
• Grmek, M.D. Diseases In The Ancient Greek World. Baltimore, 1989.
• Hankinson, R.J., ed. Method, Medicine and Metaphysics: Studies in the Philosophy of Ancient Science. Edmonton, 1988.
• Hankinson, R.J., tr. Galen: On the Therapeutic Method. Oxford, 1991.
• Hanson, A.E. "Paidopoiïa," CM 27 (1995) 291-307.
• Hanson, M., ed., trans., comm. Hippocrates: On Head Wounds. Berlin, 1999.
• Heidel, W.A. Hippocratic Medicine. New York, 1941.
• Halliday, W.R. "On the Treatment of Disease in Antiquity," in C. Bailey, E.A. Barber, C.M. Bowra, J.D. Denniston, and D.L. Page, eds., Greek Poetry and Life (Oxford, 1936) [].
• Hope, V.M., and E. Marshall. Death and Disease in the Ancient City. London and New York, 2000.
• Horstmanshoff, H.F.J., and M. Stol, eds. Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine. Leiden, 2004.
• Jackson, R.P.J. "The Composition of Roman Medical Instrumentaria as an Indicator of Medical Practice: A Provisional Assessment," CM 27 (1995) 189-207.
• Jackson, R. "Roman Doctors and their Instruments: Recent Research into Ancient Practice," JRA 3 (1990) 5-27.
• Jackson, R. Doctors and Diseases in the Roman Empire. Norman and London, 1988.
• Jashemski, W.F. A Pompeian Herbal: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants. Austin, 1999.
• Jones, W.H.S., tr. Hippocrates. London, 1923-43.
• Jouanna, J., and L. Villard. Vin et santé en Grèce ancienne. Actes du colloque organisé à l'Université de Rouen et à Paris. (BCH Supplement 40.) Paris, 2002.
• Kapparis, K. Abortion in the Ancient World. London, 2002.
• Kennedy, G.A. "Sophists and Physicians of the Greek Enlightement," in P.E. Easterling and B.M.W. Knox, eds., The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, I: Greek Literature (Cambridge, 1985) 472-477.
• King, H., ed. Health in Antiquity. London and New York, 2005.
• King, H. Greek and Roman Medicine. London, 2001.
• King, H. Hippocrates' Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece. London and New York, 1998.
• King, H. "Medical Texts as a Source for Women's History," in A. Powell, ed., The Greek World (London, 1995) 199-218.
• King, H., and V. Dasen, La médecine dans l'Antiquité grecque et romaine. Lausanne, 2008.
• Kleijwegt, M. Ancient Youth: The Ambiguity of Youth and the Absence of Adolescence in Greco-Roman Society. Amsterdam, 1991.
• Konold, D. "Codes of Medical Ethics: History," in Encyclopedia of Bioethics (New York, 1978) 163.
• Kosak, J.C. Heroic Measures: Hippocratic Medicine in the Making of Euripidean Tragedy. Leiden, 2004.
• Laale, H.W. "Abortion in Greek Antiquity: Solon to Aristotle," CML 13 (1993) 157-66 and 191-302.
• Laale, H.W. "Abortion in Roman Antiquity: Monarchy to Early Empire," CML 13 (1993) 297-308 and 14 (1993) 25-42.
• Langholf, V. Medical Theories in Hippocrates: The Early Texts and the Epidemics. Berlin and New York, 1990.
• Langslow, D.R. Medical Latin in the Roman Empire. Oxford, 2000.
• Leitner, H. Bibliography to the Ancient Medical Authors. Bern, 1973.
• Levine, E.B. Hippocrates. New York, 1971.
• Lloyd, G.E.R. Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece New York, 1983.
• Lloyd, G.E.R. In the Grip of Disease. Studies in the Greek Imagination. Oxford, 2003.
• Longrigg, J. Greek Medicine From the Heroic to the Hellenistic Age: A Source Book. London, 1998.
• Longrigg, J. Greek Rational Medicine: Philosophy and Medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians. London and New York, 1993.
• Lund, F.B. Greek Medicine. New York, 1936.
• Magner, L.N. A History of Medicine. New York, 1992.
• Majno, G. The Healing Hand: Man And Wound In The Ancient World. Cambridge [Mass.], 1975.
• Mattern, S.P. Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing. Baltimore, 2008.
• May, M.T. Galenus. Ithaca, 1968.
• Milne, J.S. Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times. New York, 1970.
• Moon, R.O. Hippocrates and his Successors in Relation to the Philosophy of their Time. London, 1923. (Reprinted New York, 1979.)
• Murray, J.S. "The Alleged Prohibition of Abortion in the Hippocratic Oath," EMC 35 (1991) 293-311.
• Needleman, L. and D. "Lead Poisoning and the Decline of the Roman Aristocracy," EMC 29 (1985) 63-94.
• Neudecker, R. Die Pracht der Latrine. Zum Wandel öffentlicher Bedürfnisanstalten in der kaiserzeitlichen Stadt. Munich, 1994.
• Aicher, P. J. Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome. Wauconda, 1995.
• Nuland, S.B. Doctors: The Biography of Medicine. New York, 1988.
• Nutton, V. Ancient Medicine. London and New York, 2004. [on-line version]
• Nutton, V. "Healers in the Medical Market Place: Towards a Social History of Graeco-Roman Medicine," in A. Wear, ed., Medicine in Society (Cambridge, 1992) 15-58.
• Phillips, E.D. Aspects of Greek Medicine. New York, 1973.
• Pinault, J.R. Hippocratic Lives and Legends. Leiden, 1992.
• Pines, S. "The Oath of Asaph the Physician and Yohanan ben Zabda. Its relation to the Hippocratic oath and the Doctrina duarum viarum of the Didache," Proceed. Israel Acad. of Sc. & Hum. 5 (1971-1976) 223-264.
• Potter, P. Short Handbook of Hippocratic Medicine. Quebec, 1988.
• Preus A. "Biomedical Techniques for Influencing Reproduction in the Fourth Cent. B.C.," Arethusa 8 (1975) 237-63.
• Prioreschi, P. "The Hippocratic Oath: A Code for Physicians, not a Pythagorean Manifesto," Med. Hyp. 44 (1995) 447-462. (Reprinted in: Proceedings of the 34th International Congress of History of Medicine, Glasgow, 4-8 Sept 1994, 99-115.)
• Prioreschi, P. A History of Medicine, Vol. II: Greek Medicine (New York, 1994), Chapter V.
• Rich, B.A. "Postmodern Medicine: Deconstructing the Hippocratic Oath," University of Colorado Law Review 65 (1993) 77-136.
• Riddle, J.M. Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance. Cambridge [Mass.], 1992.
• Riddle, J.M. Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West. Cambridge [Mass.], 1997.
• Riddle, J.M. Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine. []
• Roberts, C. and Manchester, K. The Archaeology of Disease. Third edition. Ithaca, 2005.
• Robin, E.D. "New Hippocratic Oath," San Francisco Examiner, Aug. 25, 1990, A-28.
• Robin, E.D. and R.F. McCauley. "Cultural Lag and the Hippocratic Oath," Lancet 345 (June 3, 1995) 1422-24.
• Rosalki, J. "The Hippocratic Contract," Journal of Medical Ethics 19 (Sept. 1993) 154-56.
• Rousselle, A. Porneia: On Desire and the Body in Antiquity. Oxford, 1988.
• Salazar, C.F. The Treatment of War Wounds in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Leiden, 2000.
• Sallares, R. Malaria and Rome. A History of Malaria in Ancient Italy. Oxford, 2002.
• Saunders, J.B. The Transitions from Ancient Egyptian to Greek Medicine. Lawrence, 1963.
• Scarborough, J. Roman Medicine. London, 1969.
• Schiefsky, M.J., tr. Hippocrates On Ancient Medicine. Leiden, 2005.
• Schumacher, J. Antike Medizin: die naturphilosophischen Grundlagen der Medizin in der griechischen Antike. Berlin, 1963.
• Singer, C.J. Greek Biology and Greek Medicine. Oxford, 1922.
• Skidmore, F.D. "Hippocratic Trusts," Lancet 344 (Dec. 10, 1994) 1648.
• Smith, A. "Philosophy, Science and Medicine," CW 88.4 (1995) 333ff.
• Smith, W.D. The Hippocratic Tradition. Ithaca and London, 1979.
• Smith, W.D., ed. Hippocrates. Selections. Leiden, 1990.
• Smith, W.D., ed. and tr. Hippocrates: Pseudepigraphic Writings. Leiden and New York, 1990.
• Sournia, J.-C. The Illustrated History of Medicine. London, 1992.
• Spalinger, A. in Studien zur altagyptischen Kultur 15b (1988) 256-57.
• Tarrant, H. "Midwifery and the Clouds," CQ 38 (1988) 116-22.
• Taylor, H.O. Greek Biology and Medicine. Boston, 1922.
• Temkin, O. Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy. Ithaca, 1973.
• Temkin, O. Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians. Baltimore and London, 1991.
• Temkin, O. The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology. Second edition. Baltimore, 1971.
• Temkin, O., tr. Soranus of Ephesus: Gynaecia. Baltimore, 1991.
• Turfa, J.M. "Anatomical Votives and Italian Medical Traditions," in R.D. De Puma and J.P. Small, eds., Murlo and the Etruscans. Art and Society in Ancient Etruria (Madison, 1994) 224-40.
• Van Brock, N. Reserches sur le vocabulaire medical du Grec ancien. Paris, 1961.
• Veatch, Robert M. "Hippocratic vs. Judeo-Christian Medical Ethics: Principles in Conflict," The Journal of Religious Ethics 15 (Spring 1987) 86-105.
• Viedma, C. "'I Swear by Apollo...,'" World Health 7 (1979) 24-29.
• Wagley, P.F. "The Hippocratic Oath," Humane Med. 3 (1987) 110-14.
• Watts W.J. "Ovid, the Law and Roman Society on Abortion," AClass 16 (1973) 89-101.

The Cult of Asclepius

• Aleshire, S.B. The Athenian Asklepieion. The People, their Dedications, and the Inventories. Amsterdam, 1989.
• Burford, A. The Greek Temple Builders at Epidauros. Toronto, 1969.
• Burkert, W. Greek Religion. Oxford, 1985.
• Cole, S.G. "The Uses of Water in Greek Sanctuaries," in R. Hägg, N. Marinatos, and G.C. Nordquist, eds., Early Greek Cult Practice (Stockholm, 1988) 161-65.
• Devereux, G. Dreams in Greek Tragedy. Berkeley, 1976.
• Dillon, M. "The Didactic Nature of the Epidaurian Lamata," ZPE 101 (1994) 239-60.
• Dodds, E.R. The Greeks and the Irrational. Berkeley, 1951.
• Dow, S. "The Cult of the Hero Doctor," Bull. of the Americ. Soc. of Papyrologists 22 (1985) 33-47.
• Easterling, P.E., and J.V. Muir. Greek Religion and Society. New York, 1985.
• Edell, D. Eat, Drink, and be Merry: America's Doctor Tells You Why the Health Experts are Wrong. New York, 1999.
• Edelstein, E.J. and L. Asclepius. Baltimore, 1945. [2nd edition: 1998.]
• Edelstein, L. Ancient Medicine. Baltimore, 1967.
• Farnell, L.R. Cults of the Greek States. Oxford, 1896-1909.
• Ferguson, J. Among the Gods. London, 1989.
• Frazer, J.G., ed. Pausanias' Description of Greece (London, 1913) 3.234ff.
• Guthrie, W.K.C. The Greeks and their Gods. Boston, 1955.
• Halliday, W.R. "On the Treatment of Disease in Antiquity," in Greek Poetry and Life (Oxford, 1936) 277-94.
• Hotchkiss, R. "Kelloggs of Battle Creek," American History 29 (Feb. 1995) 62-66.
• Kee, H.C. "Self-Definition in the Asclepius Cult," in B.F. Meyer and E.P. Sanders, eds., Jewish and Christian Self-Definition III (London, 1982) 118-36.
• Kerényi, C. Asklepios. New York, 1959.
• Lang, M. Cure and Cult in Ancient Corinth. A Guide to the Asklepieion. Princeton, 1977.
• LiDonnici, L.R. The Epidaurian Miracle Inscriptions: Text, Translation and Commentary. Atlanta, 1995.
• LiDonnici, L.R. "Compositional background of the Epidaurian Iamata," AJP 113 (1992) 25-41.
• Oberhelman, S. "Dreams in Graeco-Roman medicine", ANRW II.37.1 (1993) 121-56.
• Oberhelman, S.M. "The Diagnostic Dream in Ancient Medical Theory and Practice," BHM 61 (1987) 46-60.
• Porter, R., ed. The Medical History of Waters and Spas. London, 1990.
• Rice, D.G., and J.E. Stambaugh. Sources for the Study of Greek Religion. Ann Arbor, 1979.
• Rousselle, R. "Healing Cults in Antiquity: the Dream Cures of Asclepius of Epidaurus," Journ. Psychohist. 12 (1985) 339-51.
• Simon, B. Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece. Ithaca, 1978.
• Straten, F.T. "Daikrates' Dream. A Votive Relief from Kos and Some Other Kat' Onar Dedications," BABesch 51 (1976) 1-38.
• Thomlinson, R.A. Epidauros. Austin, 1983.
• Vlastos, G. "Religion and Medicine in the Cult of Asclepius," Review of Religion (1949) 278ff.
• Walton, A. Asklepios: The Cult of the Greek God of Medicine. Ithaca, 1894. Reprinted, Chicago, 1979.

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