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Left: whipworm egg taken from ancient Greek faecal matter. Right: excavation of the Bronze Age site of Ayia Irini on the island of Kea.

Ancient faeces reveal parasites described in earliest Greek medical texts

15 Dec 2017

Earliest archaeological evidence of intestinal parasitic worms infecting the ancient inhabitants of Greece confirms descriptions found in writings...

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Food and medicine in classical Greece: the ‘blurred boundary’

01 Apr 2007

What distinguishes a drug from food? Laurence Totelin traces the emergence of a definition in ancient Greece.

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