ABSTRACT
The necessarily multidisciplinary nature of ancient medical history continues to engender widespread interest among scholars, who have discovered how medicine, pharmacy, and allied subjects often illumine aspects of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine religion, politics, and social attitudes. Moreover, the increase in number of texts, translations, and precise commentaries on ancient medicine and related facets of science has also brought fresh insight into the relation of the medical sciences with ancient culture as a whole; corollary insights emerge on the role of the medical practitioner (by whatever definition) and use of remedies deemed acceptable by given societies over 2,000 years of development.
