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Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah / by Efraim Lev and Zohar Amar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lev, Efraim.
- Series:
- Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 7.
- Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series, 1570-1484 ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Materia medica--Middle East--History.
- Materia medica.
- Medicine, Medieval--Middle East--History.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Jews--Medicine--Middle East--History.
- Jews.
- Cairo Genizah.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (663 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume uniquely looks into the practice of medical care in the medieval world, particularly amongst the Jewish communities of Egypt. It examines the medicinal prescriptions, lists of materia medica and letters between physicians, pharmacists and patients found in the Cairo Genizah. Most histories of medieval medicine of the eastern Mediterranean are based upon theoretical Arabic writings. Here the authors examine, analyze and contextualize these medieval prescriptions also from the perspective of ethnobotanists, and as a result, provide an innovative insight into the everyday practice of medieval medicine and the historical use of the medicinal substances in the Medieval Mediterranean world. The result is a much needed contribution to medical-historical scholarship interested in the everyday practice of medicine of the common people of the medieval period.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Practical materia medica and its sources
- The identification of materia medica in the Genizah and method of presenting the data
- Prescriptions, lists, letters and their analysis
- Inventory of practical materia medica of the Genizah people, its analysis, and comparisons with the theoretical inventory
- Materia medica: detailed items
- Materia medica: concise items
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [581]-598) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-93629-4
- 9786611936297
- 90-474-2250-3
- OCLC:
- 310751683
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004161207.i-621 DOI
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