These lectures concern with some of the key elements of medicine and health care in classical antiquity. Topics to be covered include the image of the physician in the Graeco-Roman world; the experiences of the sick themselves; childbirth, midwifery, and gynecology; madness and mental illnesses; the Roman medical corps; the cult of Asclepius and the birth of the hospital; the golden age of Alexandrian medicine and the history of surgery.