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Journal of the American Medical Association
I would recommend this book for its wealth of archaeological detail and concise organisation of prior scholarship.

Medical History, 2003
…brings a particular angle to the diverse material collected in this book, which I can easily recommend it as a starter to those unacquainted with ancient medicine. This book is a doctor's, not a classicist's, history of Asclepius. And this 'hands-on' approach is revealing in many ways…it belongs in a tradition that persistently reinvented itself for the present in the mirror of the past. Pliny the Elder would have approved.

Canadian Medical Association Journal
In what clearly stands as a labour of long devotion, Gerald Hart, a well known Ontario hematologist now living in England, has given us a readily accessible and well-illustrated book about the ancient healing god and patron saint of medicine.

Journal of Medical Biography
I would recommend this book as a companion to students of ancient medicine, to medical historians travelling to Greece as homework before they go, and to all who want to learn more about our predecessors in the medical profession.

Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
The detailed notes, references, and appendices ensure that it is the definitive anthology on the cult of Asclepius.

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History
A rich source of information, a stimulating synthesis, and an attractive introduction to the Greek god of healing.

Paleopathology Newsletter
A showpiece of scholarly work, the book is lavishly illustrated and a credit to the production facilities of the RSM.

Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2002
The strength of the volume lies in the attention that the author gives to numismatic evidence for the cult of Asclepius.

Doctors.net.uk, www.doctors.org.uk , July, 2002
The book is lavishly illustrated and artefacts depicting the early physicians appear in churches and on buildings in many places. The staff of Asclepius is everywhere.

Greece and Rome
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Canadian Bulletin of Medical History
… a rich source of information, a stimulating synthesis, and an attractive introduction to the Greek god of healing.

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