Author: SIGERIST, Henry E.:
Title: Primitive and archaic medicine. 2nd printing. 'A history of medicine', 1, 'Historical Library', 27.
Description: New York, Oxford University Press, 1955, gr. in-8°, XXII + 564 p., illustrated, clothbound. ¶ Richly informative history of medicine by the reknown Henry E. Sigerist, research associate in the history of medicine at Yale University. This first volume contains the following sections: 1) Introduction (on the historical approach to medicine, on disease in time and space). / 2) Primitive medicine. / 3) Ancient Egypt. / 4) Mesopotamia. Plus 4 appendix (three bibliographies, a list of museums, an index). Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.

Keywords: medicine médecine history of medicine hist-med antiquity period e-antiquité ethnology ethnologie