Stories
- Book extract
Naked, not nude
Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.
- Article
The origins and meanings of pharmacy symbols
What have snakes, unicorns and crocodiles got to do with pharmacies? The history of these modern signs goes back to the Greek gods.
- Article
Black pepper to fuel fiery fights and cure haemorrhoids
This common condiment was once very valuable and, until surprisingly recently, used as a versatile medicine.
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
Catalogue
- Books
Medicine on ancient Greek and Roman coins / R.G. Penn.
Penn, R. G. (Raymond George)Date: 1994- Books
Some medical aspects of Greek and Roman coins / William K. Beatty.
Date: 1976- Books
Some notes on Greek and Roman attitudes toward the mentaly ill / George Rosen.
Rosen, George, 1910-1977Date: 1968- Books
Tools and the organism : technology and the body in ancient Greek and Roman medicine / Colin Webster.
Webster, Colin (Classicist)Date: 2023- Books
The magic, psychic, ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman medical collections of the Division of Medicine in the United States National Museum / Charles Whitebread.
Whitebread, Charles, 1878-1963.Date: [1924]
