1. Sources And Scope -- 2. Patterns Of Disease -- 3. Before Hippocrates -- 4. Hippocrates, The Hippocratic Corpus And The Defining Of Medicine -- 5. Hippocratic Theories -- 6. Hippocratic Practices -- 7. Religion And Medicine In Fifth- And Fourth-century Greece -- 8. From Plato To Praxagoras -- 9. Alexandria, Anatomy And Experimentation -- 10. Hellenistic Medicine -- 11. Rome And The Transplantation Of Greek Medicine -- 12. The Consequences Of Empire: Pharmacology, Surgery And The Roman Army -- 13. The Rise Of Methodism -- 14. Humoral Alternatives -- 15. The Life And Career Of Galen -- 16. Galenic Medicine -- 17. All Sorts And Conditions Of (mainly) Men -- 18. Medicine And The Religions Of The Roman Empire -- 19. Medicine In The Later Roman Empire -- 20. Conclusion. Vivian Nutton. Includes Bibliography And Indexes.