Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences
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J Hist Med Allied Sci · Oct 2013
Historical ArticleDoctors in ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical education.
This article collects and examines all references to doctors in rhetorical exercises used in ancient Greek and Roman schools in the Roman Empire. While doctors are sometimes portrayed positively as philanthropic, expert practitioners of their divinely sanctioned art, they are more often depicted as facing charges for poisoning their patients.