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