Greek and Roman Medicine at the British Museum

Objects can tell a different history of ancient medicine from the one preserved in famous medical texts. This British Museum research volume uses instruments, artefacts and archaeological evidence alongside written sources to explore practitioners, treatment, the body and healing in the Greek and Roman worlds.

The contributors draw on museum collections to move beyond Hippocrates and Galen and recover the material side of medical practice: the things people used, handled and left behind. Illustrated throughout and published as a British Museum Research Publication, it is specialist scholarship with a strong material-culture focus.