[Sparky]

Hello

Can any teachers point me in the direction of a website listing Greco-Roman Medical Remedies and Drugs?

Help Appreciated

Thanks

[Mrs Faithorn]

I don't know of one webpage that provides what you want, but the following links should be of some help -
Roman:
http://www.unrv.com/...maceuticals.php
http://www.dl.ket.or...icine/drugs.htm

Greek:
http://www.fjkluth.com/gmed.html ..... if you look hard!

I don't teach Medicine Through Time so am not familiar with useful sites. The ones above I have just found quickly by 'googling'.

I'll see if I can get someone who teaches this to add more ideas.

[Miss Buxton]

http://www.schoolhis...s/medicine.html

you could also try some of these links for medicine through time.

[Sparky]

I had tried googling but no luck. These links will do in the meantime.

Thanks

[Mr Moorhouse]

This site provides examples of early Roman and Etruscan remedies. Also, this essay is of use, though there are big chunks of it that aren't relevant to your question - it is easy enough to find the right bits though. The BBC have a site based on What the ancients did for us, this is the page on Roman and Greek medicine from that site. This webpage has a brief overview of some key features of greco-roman medicine. Just in case you want to go into more depth on any aspect, follow this link and you'll find some more detailed articles etc. waiting for you.

[Sparky]

Very Helpful ^^

How do you teachers find this? I spend ages googling with no result

Thanks.

[Mrs Faithorn]

If you are referring to Mr Moorhouse's links ..... he teaches Medicine Through Time (and is the person I referred to in my first post) and I guess has a good selection of bookmarks/favorites to choose from.

Me? .... I Googled using several different combinations of key words (eg. Roman +medication +drugs; Roman +medicines; Ancient Rome +medicines etc etc) However I still didn't come up with a great deal and what there was was often little snippets of information in the midst of more general information. I choose the links that seemed most helpful.

The key to good searching is to think hard about the search terms you use and to be prepared to try different search strategies.

[Mr Moorhouse]

Mostly from bookmarks for me.

Googling using the words in your title brings up some more useful sites come to think of it - try greco+roman+medicine in google and you'll find a few more useful sites. The main problem with searches that include common search terms like Roman and medicine is that there are so many sites online that include these words that you can never be sure that you're going to get what you want straight away.

[Sparky]

I've never used + signs before. Didn't know you could.

[Mrs Faithorn]

Yep. And you can use - signs too if you want to exclude certain terms from your search.

Eg: fruit +tropical -bananas

[Sparky]

I didn't know this. ^ Are you being sarcastic?

[Mrs Faithorn]

Sparky, on Oct 25 2005, 07:42 PM, said:

I didn't know this. ^ Are you being sarcastic?

Moi? Sarcastic? Never!

No Seriously .... what I said is perfectly true. However not all search engines work the same way so it doesn't work for all of them. Does for Google though.