The Healing Hand

Man and Wound in the Ancient World

Guido Majno

  • Winner of the 1975 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.

1. Prelude

2. The Asu (Mesopotamia)

3. The Swnw (Egypt)

4. The Iatrós (Greece)

5. The Perfumes of Arabia

6. The Yang I (China)

7. The Vaidya (India)

8. Alexandria the Great

9. The Medicus (Rome)

10. Galen--and into the Night

Bibliography

Abbreviations and Phonetic Notations

Notes to the Text

Notes to the Illustrations

Index

  • Cover: The Healing Hand
  • A photo of the author

Guido Majno is Chairman of the Department of Pathology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester.