Arnott R
Centre of the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham Medical School, USA.
Stud Anc Med. 2004;27:153-73.
Few scholars of ancient medicine have considered that Hippocratic practice may be based in part upon the experience and tradition, handed-down from generation to generation, starting before the end of the Bronze Age in 1100 BC. This paper examines the evidence for medical practitioners in the Aegean in the second millennium BC, and of medical contacts between the Aegean and contemporary bronze age societies of Egypt and the Near East at this time, and suggests that some of these contacts may have been the start of Near Eastern influence on Greek medicine.
很少有古代医学学者认为，希波克拉底医学实践可能部分基于公元前1100年青铜时代结束之前就代代相传的经验和传统。本文考察了公元前第二个千年爱琴海地区医学从业者的证据，以及当时爱琴海地区与埃及和近东当代青铜时代社会之间的医学交流，并表明其中一些交流可能是近东对希腊医学产生影响的开端。
