Ancient Medicine – the medical practices in antiquity – has received much from attention from historians. Like their modern counterparts, ancient people were much concerned about maintaining their health, and the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians and other ancient civilizations made many advances in medical treatments, drugs and surgery.
Articles on Ancient Medicine
Roman healing spas in Italy : a study in design and function, by Tana J. Allen
Archaeological remains as a source of evidence for Roman Medicine, by Patty Baker
Schistosomiasis in Ancient Egypt: The ‘AAA’ Debate, by Linnea Duke
Soranus of Ephesus (circa AD 98-138) and perinatal care in Roman times, by Peter M. Dunn
Shock and Awe: The Performance Dimension of Galen’s Anatomy Demonstrations, by Maud W. Gleason
Lead and Lead Poisoning from Antiquity to Modern Times, by Milton A. Lessler
Life and Death in a Civitas Capital: Metabolic Disease and Trauma in the Children from Late Roman Dorchester, Dorset, by Mary E. Lewis
Alexander the Great and West Nile Virus Encephalitis, by John S. Marr and Charles H. Calisher
Medical theories on the cause of death in crucifixion, by Matthew W. Maslen and Piers D. Mitchell
The Deadly Styx River and the Death of Alexander, by Adrienne Mayor
Conjurers, Purifiers, Vagabonds And Quacks? The Clinical Roles of the Folk and Hippocratic Healers of Classical Greece, by Leanne McNamara
Ancient Greek and Greco–Roman Methods in Modern Surgical Treatment of Cancer, by Niki Papavramidou, Theodossis Papavramidis and Thespis Demetri
Causes of death among the Caesars (27 BC-AD 476), by Francois Retief and Louise P. Cilliers
The healing hand: the role of women in Graeco-Roman medicine, by Francois Retief and Louise P. Cilliers
Lead Poisoning in Ancient Rome, by Francois Retief and Louise P. Cilliers
The Death of Cleopatra, by Francois Retief and Louise P. Cilliers
The eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 and the death of Gaius Plinius Secundus, by Francois Retief and Louise P. Cilliers
Roman medicine and the legions: a reconsideration, by John Scarborough
Disease and death in the ancient city of Rome, by Walter Scheidel
Muscularity and the Western Medical Tradition, by David Shanks
Surgery in ancient times, by Rebeka Stevenson
The bare necessities? a comparative study of the material evidence for Roman medical practice in urban domestic and army spheres, by Stephanie C. Taylor
News Articles on Ancient Medicine
How lead-based Egyptian eye makeup was used to treat eye ailments ?
Ancient Egyptian priests ‘killed by rich ritual food’
Ancient Drinks had anti-cancer properties
Ship wreck reveals ancient secrets of medicine
Mummies’ false toes put a spring in amputees’ step
Egyptians, not Greeks were true fathers of medicine
