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Medicine, Ancient

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Medicine - Early works to 1800

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Images about Medicine, Ancient

14 images from works
  • Eight ancient Roman surgical instruments. Watercolour, 1850/1910.
  • Roman altar with Greek inscription found at Chester in 1851
  • Galēnou hapanta = Galeni Pergameni summi semper uiri, quique primus artem medicinae uniuersam, apud priores homines obscuram & ueluti errantem, in perspicuam quandam & propriam expositionem traduxit, opera omnia / ad fidem complurium & perquam uetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atq[ue] restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint.
  • An ancient Roman surgical instrument. Watercolour, 1850/1910.
  • Ancient Roman and Greek surgical instruments (A-G):
  • Galēnou hapanta = Galeni Pergameni summi semper uiri, quique primus artem medicinae uniuersam, apud priores homines obscuram & ueluti errantem, in perspicuam quandam & propriam expositionem traduxit, opera omnia / ad fidem complurium & perquam uetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atq[ue] restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint.
  • Galēnou hapanta = Galeni Pergameni summi semper uiri, quique primus artem medicinae uniuersam, apud priores homines obscuram & ueluti errantem, in perspicuam quandam & propriam expositionem traduxit, opera omnia / ad fidem complurium & perquam uetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atq[ue] restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint.
  • A selection of ancient Roman surgical instruments. Watercolour, 1850/1910.
  • Galēnou hapanta = Galeni Pergameni summi semper uiri, quique primus artem medicinae uniuersam, apud priores homines obscuram & ueluti errantem, in perspicuam quandam & propriam expositionem traduxit, opera omnia / ad fidem complurium & perquam uetustorum exemplariorum ita emendata atq[ue] restituta, ut nunc primum nata, atque in lucem aedita, uideri possint.
  • Assyrian seal
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Works from the collections

78 works

    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0008992: Egyptian papyrus circa 1000 B.C.

    | Date: 14 February 1944 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/78/94
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Assyrian seal

    • Books

    Perplexing remedies in ancient medicine : Dreckapotheke in Mesopotamia and the Graeco-Roman world / Maddalena Rumor.

    | Maddalena Rumor | Date: [2025]
    • Books

    Médecine et médecins au Proche-Orient ancien : actes du colloque international organisé à Lyon les 8 et 9 novembre 2002, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée / textes réunis par Laura Battini et Pierre Villard.

    | Date: 2006
    • Books

    Homo patiens : approaches to the patient in the ancient world / edited by Georgia Petridou and Chiara Thumiger.

    | Date: [2016]
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Related topics

Medicine, Greek and Roman
Ancient
History, Ancient
History of Medicine
Medicine, Egyptian
Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian
Surgical Instruments
Greece
Health - Early works to 1800

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