Neurological Concepts in Ancient Greek Medicine

Dr. Walshe has been practicing Neurology for almost 40 years. He went to medical school at the University of Virginia and was a medical resident at Baylor in Houston. He studied neurology taught by Raymond Adams and C Miller Fisher and completed his residency in their program. He has been at the Brigham and Women's Hospital full time since 2005. In 1993 he began to learn Greek. He was able to spend a year sabbatical studying Greek at Berkeley. The essays are an ongoing project that has developed over several years.

This fascinating work of learning does much to illuminate these complex dilemmas that so mystified the ancient Greek scholars and physicians...the profusion of references to this era will be invaluable to scholars. As Walshe says in his preface, his book is not the story of neurology in Greek Medicine, rather a description of Greek ideas that pertain to our own ideas of neurology.

• Foreword by Martin A. Samuels Preface Chapter 1: Neurologic Concepts in the Homeric Epics Chapter 2: Hippocrates and the Corpus Hippocraticum Chapter 3: A Neurology Text Before there was Neurology Chapter 4: On the Sacred Disease Chapter 5: Surgical Texts and Diagnosis Guides Chapter 6: Wounds of the Head Chapter 7: Hippocratic Medicine and Neurologic Conditions Chapter 8: Ancient Greek Ideas of Cognition Chapter 9: The Separation of the Nerves from Other Fibers Chapter 10: The Hellenistic Pursuit of Neuroanatomy Chapter 11: The Hippocratic Oath and a Modern Digression