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Aug 2018

1h 12m

078 Healing and Medicine

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In this episode, we discuss healing and medicine in the ancient Greek world by looking at Asklepios, Asklepieia, and the earliest physicians; Hippocrates, the Hippocratic School of Medicine, and the Hippocratic Corpus; and bacterial/viral diseases, mental diseases, and disabilities

Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2018/08/078-healing-and-medicine.html

Introduction by Noah Tetzner of History of Vikings

Website: http://thehistoryofvikings.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistoryofViking

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