Hippocratic recipes : oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth-century Greece / by Laurence M.V. Totelin.

  • Totelin, Laurence M. V.
Date:
2009
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Publication/Creation

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Physical description

xviii, 366 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Contents

Oral transmission of medical knowledge and written recipes -- The history of the written catalogues of recipes -- Hippocratic recipes between home remedies and haute medecine -- Imports, geographical determinism, and influences : the use of exotic and luxury ingredients in the Hippocratic catalogues of recipes -- Fertility and sex : the symbolism attached to some of the ingredients of the Hippocratic gynaecological recipes -- Reading, studying, and using the Hippocratic catalogues of recipes -- The afterlife of Hippocratic recipes.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-326) and indexes.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9789004171541
  • 9004171541