The Healing Hand

Man and Wound in the Ancient World

Guido Majno

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$76.50 • £61.95 • €69.00

ISBN 9780674383302

Publication Date: 01/01/1975

Short

600 pages

15 color illustrations, 572 halftones

Commonwealth Fund Publications

World

Related Subjects

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

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1975 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, The Phi Beta Kappa Society

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