Ancient Greek & Roman Medicine
You're Dead to Me
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The Importance of Oaths in the Ancient World
There were lots of oaths in the ancient world, not just the Hippocratic oath. Scrirrhoneus Largus also electrocuted people with eels so... That's right. Most anatomical study happened actually through dissection but dissection of animals. The dissection of human bodies seems to have been in practice only for a short period of time in Egypt and Alexandria.
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