The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World (Commonwealth Fund Publications) Review

The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World (Commonwealth Fund Publications)
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I ran across this in a high school library. A high school library, for crying out loud--and I don't believe anyone else had ever checked it out.
It made wonderful Christmas reading. I suppose most people don't read about medical history over Christmas. I did. I couldn't put it down.
Ancient Greece, China, India...I can't remember the rest. (That copy is still *in* the high school library...though temptation beckoned.) Majno covered medical practice (or malpractice from a modern perspective...) in loving detail. I wish my medical background were better, but I believe this book is honestly written and as accurate as it could be. Some of the research was eye-opening even to my poor ignorant eyes.
Medicine isn't everyone's favourite leisure reading...but if it is yours, take a look.

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This journey to the beginnings of the physician's art brings to life the civilizations of the ancient world--Egypt of the Pharaohs, Greece at the time of Hippocrates, Rome under the Caesars, the India of Ashoka, and China as Mencius knew it. Probing the documents and artifacts of the ancient world with a scientist's mind and a detective's eye, Guido Majno pieces together the difficulties people faced in the effort to survive their injuries, as well as the odd, chilling, or inspiring ways in which they rose to the challenge. In asking whether the early healers might have benefited their patients, or only hastened their trip to the grave, Dr. Majno uncovered surprising answers by testing ancient prescriptions in a modern laboratory.

Illustrated with hundreds of photographs, many in full color, and climaxing ten years of work, The Healing Hand is a spectacular recreation of man's attempts to conquer pain and disease.


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