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16 entries match Ancient [K01.400.470] · Public Health [N02.500] · Historiography & General Works [K01.900]

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1478

#20

De medicina. Ed: Bartholomaeus Fontius.

CELSUS, Aulus Aurelius Cornelius (-25 – 50) FONTE, Bartolomeo della (Bartholomaeus Fontius) (1446 – 1513)

De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about 30 CE, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine. Celsus’s s…

1845

#2421

Geschichte der Lustseuche. Erster Theil. Die Lustseuche im Alterthume.

ROSENBAUM, Julius (1807 – 1874)

French translation, 1847; English translation as The plague of lust, being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity, and including: Detailed investigations into the cult of Venus, and phallic worship, brot…

1851 –1876

#31

Oeuvres d’Oribase, texte grec, en grande partie inédit…traduit pour la première fois en français; par les Drs. Bussemaker et Daremberg. 6 vols.

DAREMBERG, Charles Victor (1817 – 1872) ORIBASIUS (ὈΡΕΙΒΆΣΙΟΣ), [Oreibasius] (320 – 403) BUSSEMAKER, Ulco Cats (1810 – 1865)

MOLINIER, Auguste (1851 – 1904)

Oribasius was a compiler of existing knowledge rather than an original writer. His output was immense; he compiled the Synagoge, an encyclopedic digest of medicine, hygiene, therapeutics, and surgery from Hippocrates …

1881

#1647

Die öffentliche Hygiene im alten Rom.

UFFELMANN, Julius August Christian (1837 – 1894)

1954

#9879

"L'Eunuque dans l'Égypte pharaonique.

JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)

Full annotated text available at https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/pharaonique.htm.

1972

#10684

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome VI, 2e partie: Du régime des maladies aiguës, Appendice, De l'aliment, De l'usage des liquides. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) JOLY, Robert (1922 – 2011)

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises of different periods devoted to nutrition: On regimen in acute diseases (in two versions, with the second traditionally identified as th…

1977

#1092.54

Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.

DARBY, William Jefferson (1913 – 2001)

GHALIOUNGUI, Paul (Ghalioungi) (1908 – 1987) GRIVETTI, Louis Evan (1938 – )

Extensively illustrated history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.

1988

#8837

The body and society: Men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity.

BROWN, Peter Robert Lamont (1935 – )

"A groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lif…

1990

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

ORTIZ DE MONTELLANO, Bernard R.

1996

#9757

Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.

YEGÜL, Fikret K. (1941 – )

Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…