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    and practices during this time endured in Western medicine for centuries and many themes are seen in modern women's health. Classical gynecology and obstetrics...
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  • Cleopatra the Physician (category Ancient Greek women physicians)
    gynaecology as well as cosmetics. Women's medicine in antiquity Plant, Ian Michael (2004). "39. Cleopatra (fl. after AD 64)". Women Writers of Ancient Greece...
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    Tertullian, "Methodicae Medicinae instructissimus auctor." Women's medicine in antiquity Suda, Soranos, σ 851, σ 852 ap. Aët. ii. 2. 55 Galen, De Meth...
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    Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history...
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    classical antiquity, including the major traditions of Hippocrates, Galen and Dioscorides. During the post-classical era, Middle Eastern medicine was the...
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    was iatrikē (Greek: ἰατρική). Many components were considered in ancient Greek medicine, intertwining the spiritual with the physical. Specifically, the...
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  • Suicide was a widespread occurrence in antiquity across cultures. There were many different methods and reasons for dying by suicide, and these vary across...
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    In the Middle Ages, the medicine of Western Europe was composed of a mixture of existing ideas from antiquity. In the Early Middle Ages, following the...
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    Medicine in ancient Rome was highly influenced by ancient Greek medicine, but also developed new practices through knowledge of the Hippocratic Corpus...
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    Agnodice (category Ancient Athenian women)
    Hypatia's heritage: a history of women in science from antiquity to the late nineteenth century. London: Women's Press. ISBN 0704339544. Demand, Nancy...
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    medicine was notable for building upon the knowledge base developed by its Greco-Roman predecessors. In preserving medical practices from antiquity,...
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  • of Alexandria Syriac . He wrote 30 books on medicine, the "Pandects". He was the first author in antiquity who mentioned the diseases of smallpox and measles...
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  • Towards a history of therapeutic masturbation in ancient gynaecology". Journal on Gender Studies in Antiquity. 1 (1): 205–235. ISSN 2156-2253. Lieberman...
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    been used in traditional medicine since antiquity. Arabic indigenous medicine developed from the conflict between the magic-based medicine of the Bedouins...
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    Ayurveda (redirect from Ayurvedic medicine)
    bone (asthi), marrow (majja), and semen (shukra). Like the medicine of classical antiquity, the classic treatises of ayurveda divided bodily substances...
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    main sources of information about ancient Egyptian medicine were writings from later in antiquity. The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt around...
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    for women's safety during childbirth and for good health of the infants Heracles Apotropaios, god of strength and athletes; he was trained in medicine and...
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  • Tourism Sciences Asian Women Gender & Society Journal of Women's Health Psychology of Women Quarterly Sex Roles Women & Health Women's Health Issues List...
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    women in all of classical antiquity". However, by 1980, writing about women in classical Athens was called "positively trendy", and in 1989 women's studies...
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    Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (c. 600 AD), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically...
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    Rod of Asclepius (category Snakes in art)
    in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Asclepius' attributes, the snake and the staff, sometimes depicted separately in antiquity, are combined in this...
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    Empire". In Harris MV (ed.). Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations. Leiden: Brill. pp. 126–146. Geltner G (January 2019). "In the Camp...
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    Insects have long been used in medicine, both traditional and modern, sometimes with little evidence of their effectiveness. The medicinal uses of insects...
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    then, pharmacy evolved from antiquity as part of medicine. The history of pharmacy coincides well with the history of medicine, but it's important that there...
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  • Rebecca Flemming (category Women classical scholars)
    Reproduction Antiquity to the Present Day (Cambridge University Press)  Rebecca Flemming (2000) Medicine and the Making of Roman Women Gender, Nature...
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    Herophilos (section Medicine)
    in early modern times (Vesalius), more than 1600 years after Herophilos's death. Herophilos emphasised the use of the experimental method in medicine...
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    and complicated symbolic history". There are commentaries on hanging in antiquity, and it has various cultural interpretations. Throughout history, numerous...
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    Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity. New York: Schocken Books, 1975. p. 60-62 Tierney, Helen (1999). Women's studies encyclopaedia. Vol...
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    predecessors. In preserving medical practices from antiquity, Byzantine medicine influenced Islamic medicine and fostered the Western rebirth of medicine during...
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    nineteen authors in the Hippocratic Corpus. However, the varied works of the corpus have gone under Hippocrates' name since antiquity. The corpus may be...
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