Julia Macrae Books

Author: Joan Smith

For a Greek medical student on the island of Cos in 418 BC, life is exciting and demanding. Philo, apprenticed to Hippocrates the physician, is one of a lively group of students which includes Nicodemus, arrogant but humorous and cynical Timocrates, ambitious for Olympic glory. Besides their work they must deal with false healers, sly herb gatherers and people who wish them ill. They are faced too with the victims of earthquake and epidemic.