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Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Defining health
- 2 Hearing ancient voices
- 3 Keeping your finger on the pulse
- 4 This week’s quiz
- Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Vision in ancient times
- 2 Healing the eyes
- 3 Modifying the body
- 4 This week’s quiz
- Summary
- Introduction
- 1 A regimen for everyone
- 2 Archaeological evidence for food and health
- 3 Food and drugs
- 4 This week’s quiz
- Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Toilets and waste
- 2 Keeping clean: sewers and bath houses
- 3 Doctors and excrement
- 4 This week’s quiz
- Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Births in ancient mythology
- 2 Giving birth
- 3 After birth: care of the newborn
- 4 This week’s quiz
- Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Ancient ideals
- 2 The ideal body and the disabled body
- 3 Recruiting and treating the soldier
- 4 This week’s quiz
- Summary
- Where next?
- References
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
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