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The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood

by Dhun Sethna

A revisionist history of medicine, in which blood plays the starring role Inspired by Homer’s description of the ebb and flow of the “wine dark sea,” the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement of blood. That false notion, perpetuated by the influential Roman physician Galen, prevailed for fifteen hundred years until William Harvey proved that blo

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781541600669