title: [The "medical school" of Alexandria and its influence upon medicine in Graeco-Roman Egypt].
abstract: The paper provides new information on the most famous centre of rational medicine in the Graeco-Roman world and its influence in Egypt. It uses at its point of departure a remarkable but insufficiently known documentation: Greek literary papyri (from IV/III B.C. to A.D. VI/VII), which often are unique witnesses to lost medical works, bearing testimony to original theories, practices and vocabulary.
mesh_terms: D004534:Egypt; D018645:Greek World / Q000266:history*; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic / Q000266:history*; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history*; D018644:Roman World / Q000266:history*; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history*