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

Van Pelt Library RM300 .T68 2009
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Totelin, Laurence M. V.
Series:
Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 34.
Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; v. 34
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Hippocrates--Knowledge and learning--Pharmacology.
Hippocrates.
Pharmacology.
Pharmacology--Greece--History--To 1500.
Drug development--Greece--History--To 1500.
Drug development.
Pharmaceutical Preparations--history.
Drug Compounding--history.
Drug Prescriptions--history.
Greek World.
History, Ancient.
Pharmacology--history.
History.
Greece.
Medical Subjects:
Pharmaceutical Preparations--history.
Drug Compounding--history.
Drug Prescriptions--history.
Greek World.
History, Ancient.
Pharmacology--history.
Physical Description:
xviii, 366 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-326) and indexes.
ISBN:
9789004171541
9004171541
OCLC:
243818519

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