The history of healing in antiquity and the Middle Ages

Two German professors took up the solution of a difficult task: in a compressed form, it is boring to state the history of antiquity and the Middle Ages - and they coped brilliantly with it. Here are the methods of Babylon priests, and the real text of the Hippocratic oath, and the first anatomical theaters, and plastic surgery of the 16th century ... The reader led by the authors visits ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, looks into Byzantium and is present at the same time Medieval European universities are re -mastered by ancient medicine that returned in the Arabic interpretation. The book is illustrated, the translation is made specifically for the real publication.

Theodore Meyer -Steinag (1873 -1936) is a professor at the Department of History of Medicine of Jena University, he owns the first part - "Medicine of antiquity". Karl Zudgof (1853 -1938) is the head of the Department of History of Medicine of Leipzig University, the founder in Leipzig of the Institute of History of Medicine and Natural Sciences, which now bears his name, the author of the second part is the Medication of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance