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John the Physician's Therapeutics : a medical handbook in vernacular Greek / by Barbara Zipser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zipser, Barbara.
- Series:
- Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 37.
- Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; v. 37
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- John the Physician, active 13th century. Therapeutics.
- John the Physician.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Medicine, Greek and Roman.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (388 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Therapeutics of John the Physician is a medical handbook from the thirteenth century, holding important new evidence on medicine as craft. Of particular interest is a vernacular version of the text, which also contains a commentary. Here, an unknown reviser vividly describes cases and medical procedures, a type of knowledge rarely encountered in scholarly texts. In the present volume, the Therapeutics is published for the first time, along with a translation and an introduction to the topic. Apart from insights into medical history, the text also yields a large quantity of new material on the medical terminology used in everyday language and brings to life the development from ancient to modern Greek. The editorial technique may be of interest to those working on digital humanities.
- Contents:
- An unusual topic
- The text
- Other texts
- The manuscript tradition
- Editorial methods
- Language, place and date
- Medical practice.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-60229-2
- 9786612602290
- 90-474-3067-0
- OCLC:
- 607552773
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004177239.i-378 DOI
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