Table of Contents

I. ARCHAIC MEDICINE IN GREECE
1: The Setting
2: Homeric Medicine
3: Religious Medicine: Asclepius and His Cult
4: Pre-Socratic Philosophers and Early Medical Schools
II. HINDU MEDICINE
1: The Setting
2: Early Indus Civilization
3: Vedic Medicine
4: Indian Philosophies and Early Medical Schools
III. MEDICINE IN ANCIENT PERSIA
1: Ancient Persia
IV. THE GOLDEN AGE OF GREEK MEDICINE
1: Life in the Greek City-States
2: Hippocrates and the Collection of Hippocratic Writings
3: Patient and Physician
4: Medical Theories