Scholars in the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions digitize the full text of these works in the original Greek language and create a unique digital collection documenting ancient medicine: the Art of Healing Collection. Digital Hippocrates is an online repository of vital medical information.
The Greek Medical Legacy Greek Medicine is a library devoted to the medical literature of Greece, from the time of Hippocrates (460 – between 375 and 351 B.C.) to Galen (A.D. 129 – 216 [?]). For each of the works of ancient Greek physicians arrived to us, Greek Medicine offers in open access a link to the currently available digital versions of printed editions. This collection will be …
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This volume, authored by outstanding papyrologists and historians of ancient medicine, deals with topics focused on the papyrological evidence of ancient medical texts and contexts. The first part contains some new reflections on important sources such as the Anonymus Londinensis and the Hippocratic corpus, the second part collects papers about the “doctors’ context”, and the final part …
These ancient Greek texts laid the groundwork for Western medical thought, influencing medical practice, ethics, and philosophy for centuries. The principles outlined in the Corpus continue to resonate in contemporary medicine, reflecting the enduring legacy of early Greek medical thinkers.
This medieval text preserves and transmits ancient Greek and Latin medical knowledge, cataloging hundreds of natural remedies and their uses. It illuminates the continuity of pharmacological practice and translation, shaping the understanding and application of medicine in medieval Europe.
PubMed® comprises more than 40 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
The Corpus of Greek Medical Papyri Online (CPGM) aims to digitize and critically edit Greek medical texts. Over 300 medical texts have been published, with 281 fully encoded in the ParmaMed SoSOL community. Project initiated under the ERC grant DIGMEDTEXT at the University of Parma, enhancing digital humanities research.
A gallery of birds from folio 483v of the Vienna Dioscorides The Vienna Dioscurides or Vienna Dioscorides is an early 6th-century Byzantine Greek illuminated manuscript of an even earlier 1st century AD work, De materia medica (Ancient Greek: Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, romanized: Perì hylēs iatrikēs) by Pedanius Dioscorides in uncial script. It is an important and rare example …