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Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah / by Efraim Lev and Zohar Amar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lev, Efraim.
- Series:
- Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 7.
- Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series, 1570-1484 ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Materia medica--Middle East--History.
- Materia medica.
- Medicine, Medieval--Middle East--History.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Jews--Medicine--Middle East--History.
- Jews.
- Cairo Genizah.
- Materia Medica--history.
- Jews--Medicine.
- History.
- Middle East.
- History, Medieval.
- Jews--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Materia Medica--history.
- Middle East.
- History, Medieval.
- Jews--history.
- Physical Description:
- x, 619 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Practical Materia Medica and its sources
- The identification of materia medica in the Genizah and method of presenting the data
- Prescriptions, lists, letters and their analysis
- Inventory of practical Materia Medica of the Genizah people, its analysis, and comparisons with the theoretical inventory
- Materia Medica: detailed items
- Materia Medica: concise items
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [581]-598) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9004161201
- 9789004161207
- OCLC:
- 164802411
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