Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Indo-Europeans and medical terms

  • Indo-Europeans and medical terms

    William Jones by John Linnell (1792–1882) after the original of Joshua Reynolds. Via Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 4.0. Somewhere around 3,000 to 7,000 years ago there lived in the steppes of southern Ukraine, or perhaps in northern Anatolia, a group of people whom we now call Indo-European but about whom we know very little. They left…