Volume II details the development of medicine among the early Indo-European peoples--Greeks, Indians, and Persians. The Indo-Europeans were the first to use empirical knowledge to develop philosophical systems of medicine which looked beyond the sick man for universal laws. This volume examines the Greek rational systems which are the foundations of modern science, and the similar Near Eastern approaches, which had an additional mystic component better suited for handling mental and spiritual problems.

Additional Contributing Authors Include John Rathbone Oliver And Owsei Temkin.

Contributing Authors Include John Rathbone Oliver, Owsei Temkin, John F. Fulton And Others.

This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.

Additional Contributing Authors Include Owsei Temkin, E. J. Haines, Howard W. Jones, Dorothy Cross, Katherine Knox, James Haviland, G. E. Seegar, Helen C. Brooke, Edward F. Lewison, And Ward Briggs.

Publications Of The Institute Of The History Of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Third Series, V1.