The Heart and the Vascular System in Ancient Greek Medicine : From Alcmaeon to Galen by Harris, C.R.

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The Heart and the Vascular System in Ancient Greek Medicine : From Alcmaeon to Galen by Harris, C.R.ISBN: 9780198581352 Sandpiper Books 08 February 1972 Hardback 486 pages Description: The history of Greek Medicine is structured around an investigation of how the ancient Greeks, in spite of their accurate knowledge of anatomy, failed to discover the circulation of the blood. Harris traces the development of the Greeks'ideas about the physiological function of the heart from the earliest writings (in the 5th century BC) by Alcmaeon of Croton, a pupil

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