'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin medical texts : studies in cultural change and exchange in ancient medicine / edited by Brigitte Maire.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maire, Brigitte, editor.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Studies in ancient medicine ; 0925-1421 Volume 42.

Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; Volume 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Greek and Roman--History.

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

History.

History of Medicine.

History, Ancient.

Culture.

Greek World.

Roman World.

Medical Subjects:

History of Medicine.

History, Ancient.

Culture.

Greek World.

Roman World.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 451 pages ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Greek and Roman in Latin medical texts

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2014]

Summary:

Latin medical text transmit medical theories and practices that originated mainly in Greece. This interaction rook place through, juxtaposition, assimilation and transformation of ideas. 'Greek' and 'Roman in Latin Medical Texts studies the ways in which this cultural interaction influenced the development of the medical profession and the growth of knowledge of human and animal bodies, and especially how it provided the foundations for innovations in the areas of anaromy, pathology and pharmacology, from the earliest Latin medical texts until well into the medieval world. Book jacket.

Contents:

Greek and Roman patients under Galen's gaze : a doctor at the crossroads of two cultures / Veronique Boudon-Millot

"Memorial" strategies of court physicians in the imperial period / Sebastien Barbara

The identity, legal status and origin of the Roman army's medical staff in the imperial age / Pascal Bader

Pneumatism in Seneca : an example of interaction between physics and medicine / Frederic Le Blay

References to medical authors in non-medical Latin literature / Innocenzo Mazzini

At the crossroads of Greek and Roman medicine : the contribution of Latin papyri / Marie-Helene Marganne and Magali de Haro Sanchez

Calcidius, witness to Greek medical theories : eye anatomy and pathology / Beatrice Bakhouche

Physical pain in Celsus' On medicine / Aurelien Gautherie

The pharmacological treatise of Juba II, King of Mauretania / Antoine Pietrobelli

"As a matter of fact, this is not difficult to understand!" : the addresses to the reader in Greek and Latin pharmacological poetry / Svetlana Hautala

Magical formulas in Pliny's natural history : origins, sources, parallels / Patricia Gaillard-Seux

On analgesic and narcotic plants : Pliny and his Greek sources, the history of a complex graft / Valerie Bonet

Collyrium names attested on stone tablets : the example of the Helvetian corpus / Muriel Pardon-Labonnelie

The meaning and etymology of the adjective apiosus / Vincenzo Ortoleva

The Latin and Greek tradition of the corpus oribasianum / Serena Buzzi and Federico Messina

Galen of Pergamum : a witness of Scribonius Largus' ouvre / Alessia Guardasole

Greek medicine in Scribonius Largus' compositiones / Sergio Sconocchia

The ancient Latin commentary on the Hippocratic aphorisms on the threshold of the twelfth century / Manuel E. Vazquez Bujan

On terminological variation in the late Latin translation of the Hippocratic aphorisms / Gerd V.M. Haverling

From Cassius Felix to Tereoperica : new considerations on indirect tradition / Laura Lopez Figueroa

The author of Book 10 of the Mulomedicina chironis and its Greek and Latin sources / Valerie Gitton Ripoll.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9004242783

9789004242784

OCLC:

878300964

Publisher Number:

99959637167