IL MEDICO NELL'ANTICHITA CLASSICA: TESTIMONIANZE EPIGRAFICHE

Abstract

Medicine began to develop as scientific discipline in ancient Greece. Hippocratic medical schools spread all over the Mediterranean area and people who practiced medicine were reminded to posterity through epigraphic burial stones. Medical practice and personal skills were acknowledged in short sentences that are greatly helpful to understand past medicine and its pioneers. In this article selected burial stones dedicated to ancient physicians were examined to offer to scholars both of medicine and classical studies a deep insight into medical practice of the past.

Key words: History of medicine, Greece, Hippocratic medicine, physicians, burial stones, epigraphy.