Milk and dairy products in the medicine and culinary art of antiquity and early Byzantium (1st -7th centuries AD) / Zofia Rzeznicka, Maciej Kokoszko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rzeźnivcka, Zofia, author.

Kokoszko, Maciej, author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Byzantina Lodziensia ; 38.

Byzantina Lodziensia ; no XXXVIII

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Greek and Roman--History.

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

History.

Medicine, Medieval--Byzantine Empire--History.

Medicine, Medieval.

Dairy products--Therapeutic use--History--To 1500.

Dairy products.

Cooking (Dairy products)--History--To 1500.

Cooking (Dairy products).

Byzantine Empire.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 229 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lódź-Kraków : Lódź University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"The following publication constitutes a continuation of a longstanding research conducted by both authors on nourishment, dietetics, pharmacology and gastronomy in the Late Antiquity and early Byzantium. The book was created based primarily on Greek medical treatises composed from the 1st to 7th century, but it takes into account data that originates outside of this collection.00The goal of the authors was to present the knowledge of the people in antiquity and Byzantium on milk and dairy products. To achieve that they attempted to translate into contemporary language the way of thinking of then doctors, and to present main points of the theory propagated by them. In particular, the authors have shown ways of utilizing aforementioned alimentary products as food and medicine. Thus, they consciously encroach the area of history of pharmacology and gastronomy. Even though the nature of their research led the authors to focus on conclusions in the field of the history of food and medicine, they also take up the issues related to society and economy of this period."-- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Some comments on the book and its structure

2. Humoral theory

an outline

A Few Words on Milk and Dairy Products / Maciej Kokoszko

ch. I The Pre-Galenic Science Of Milk And Dairy Products

Celsus And Dioscorides: Selected Aspects / Maciej Kokoszko

1. An introduction to the theory on milk and dairy products

2. Theory on milk and dairy products in the encyclopaedia De medicina by Aulus Cornelius Celsus

3. Theory on milk and dairy products in De materia medica by Dioscorides

4. Conclusions

ch. II Milk And The Dietetics, Pharmacology, Therapeutic Procedures And Culinary Art: Galen And His Followers / Maciej Kokoszko

1. Galen and later medical authors on the dietetic properties of milk / Maciej Kokoszko

2. Galen and later medical authors on the pharmacological properties of milk and its applications in therapeutics / Zofia Rzeznicka

3. Milk in cuisine / Maciej Kokoszko

ch. III Oksygala In Dietetics, Medical Procedures, And Culinary Art: Galen And His Followers / Zofia Rzeznicka

ch. IV Cheese In Dietetics, Pharmacology, Therapeutic Procedures And Culinary Art: Galen And His Followers / Maciej Kokoszko

1. Galen and later medical autohors on the dietetic properties of cheese / Zofia Rzeznicka

2. Galen and later medical autohors on the pharmacological properties of cheese and its applications in therapeutics / Zofia Rzeznicka

3. Cheese in cuisine / Maciej Kokoszko

ch. V Butter In Dietetics, Pharmacology, Therapeutic Procedures And Culinary Art: Galen And His Followers / Zofia Rzeznicka

1. Galen and later medical autohors on butter in dietetics, pharmacology and therapeutics

2. Butter in cuisine

ch. VI Appendix, Or On A Clear Understanding / Zofia Rzeznicka

1. Pyriepbtha

an enigmatic term

2. Trying to fully understand Galen

3. Consequences.

Notes:

Contains abstract.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-214) and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

832334745X

9788323347453

OCLC:

1129819821

Publisher Number:

99988446666