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Medicine, Ancient

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  • Eight 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.
  • An ancient Roman surgical instrument. 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.
  • 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.
  • 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, discovered at Pompeii. Pen and ink with watercolour, 18--?.
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Catalogue

    • 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]
    • Books

    Jawāmiʻ al-Iskandaranīyīn / tarjamat Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq ; nashr Fuʼād Sizkīn.

    Galen. | Date: 2001
    • Student dissertations

    Gnosticism, medicine and some early Christians / Paul Friedman.

    Friedman, Paul. | Date: 2006
    • Books
    • Online

    Aretaioy kaiiadokoy ta sozomena = The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian / edited and translated by Francis Adams.

    | Date: 1856
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