An attempted reconstruction of the late Alexandrian medical curriculum.

نویسنده

  • A Z Iskandar
چکیده

HIISTORIANS OF MEDICINE are a little perplexed about the "Museum, School, and Library" in ancient Alexandria. The names, at least, of eminent Hellenistic anatomists, physiologists and experimental pathologists of that period are known, and fragments from secondary sources on their achievements are available.' For centuries, Alexandria remained a great centre of learning, yet very little is known about the early Alexandrian medical curriculum. Galen (c. A.D. 130-c. A.D. 200),2 whose works provide the best source of information about his contemporaries and predecessors, studied anatomy in Pergamum, then at Smyrna, Corinth, and later in Alexandria, whence he returned to Pergamum to take up a post of physician to the gladiators.3 Of all these schools, he singled out Alexandria, expressing unqualified admiration of its system for the teaching of osteology:

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Medical History

دوره 20  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1976