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The article discusses the status of the history of medicine at the intersection of disciplines, with reference to the edited volume: Medicina, antiqua mediaevalis et moderna. Historia – filozofia – religia [Medicina, antiqua mediaevalis et moderna. History – Philosophy – Religion] (ed. by S. Konarska-Zimnicka, L. Kostuch and B. Wojciechowska, Kielce 2019). The author focuses on the ancient idea of the unity of body and soul to draw attention to the dependence of medical practices on cultural conditions, using the example of the recipe for headache from Plato’s Charmides and the articles in Medicina, antiqua mediaevalis et moderna.