HIST 449 Medicine in the Ancient World

This work has over 1,000 entries of practioners, primarily in the western medical tradition, but also including those in alternative and traditional Chinese, Indian and Islamic medicine.

This is a good source for information about medical terminology. If you can't find a term in it, or need more information, try Oxford Reference Online or Xreferplus.

This reference work has detailed entries for 161 diseases, describing both their histories and characteristics.

This source searches multiple reference books, providing definitions and brief information in medicine, history and classical studies, drawing upon works such as the Oxford Companion to the Body, the Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, and the Oxford Classical Dictionary. This resource can be searched in total or by specific subject areas or individual works.

A glossary of archaic medical terms, diseases and causes of death.