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Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

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Antiqua Medicina [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] : This site collects materials assembled for a print display on ancient medicine created for Historical Collections in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.
The Hippocratic Oath: A translation of the Hippocratic Oath from the National Library of Medicine.
The Conversation, ‘Hippocrates didn’t write the oath, so why is he the father of medicine?’: Helen King explains why historians of medicine no longer attribute the Hippocratic Oath to the historical Hippocrates.
Sarah E. Bond, ‘As trainers for the healthy’.
Perseus quick start guide: If you would like more guidance using Perseus, check out this quick start guide.
Livius: This offers other English translations of ancient Greek and Latin texts.
Project Gutenberg: This offers ebooks of free-to-use publications.
Inscriptions and papyri: These English translations of some inscriptions and papyri illustrate the history of the Hellenistic World and Roman Republic.