Ancient Medicine Articles

America's Earliest Medical Book The Badianus Manuscript, (Codex Barberini, Latin 241) an Aztec Herbal of 1552, was...

The majority of this article and all of the quotes are taken from The Healing Gods of Ancient Civilizations (1925), by...

Excerpts taken from Magic and Medical Science in Ancient Egypt, by Paul Ghalioungui (1963) Although most of the...

"Since man first became conscious of himself, he has been eager to understand the two most striking mysteries...