Man and wound in the ancient world : a history of military medicine from Sumer to the fall of Constantinople / Richard A. Gabriel.

Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2012], ©2012.

vii, 267 pages ; 23 cm

1st ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-254) and index.

War, wounds, and disease in the ancient world -- The origins of military medicine -- Ancient Sumer (4000 to 2000 B.C.) -- Egypt (3500 to 350 B.C.) -- Assyria (911 to 612 B.C.) -- Israel and Persia (1300 to 100 B.C.) -- India 400 to 100 B.C.) -- Greece (500 to 147 B.C.) -- Rome (753 B.C. to A.D. 478) -- Barbarians and Byzantines (478 to 1453 A.D.) -- Islam and the Middle Ages (600 to 1453 A.D.) -- Military medicine in the ancient world.