Tome 1.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oberhelman, Steven M.

Series:

Medical Traditions Series

Medical Traditions Series ; v.6-1

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (680 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

This three-volume set of essays is dedicated to Alain Touwaide, known for his far-reaching investigations in fields such as ancient medicine, botany, pharmacy, texts and manuscripts, the classical tradition, translation, the history of science, ethnopharmacology, and plant therapies.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Figures and Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

List of Publications by Alain Touwaide

1 Monographs

a) Sole author

2021

2016

2013

1993

1992-1993

b) In collaboration

2009

2007

2003

2000

1999

1998

2 Edited works

1 Series

2 Editing of monographs/collections of essays

a) Sole editor

2022

2018

2012

b) Co-editor

2008

2006

1994-1995

c) Scientific-editor

2020

3 Editorials, introductions, introductions to edited works, and inaugural lectures

2011

2010

2005

b) Co-author

4 Chapters in edited volumes

2024

2023

2017

2015

2014

2004

1996

1994

1992

b) Chapters in collaboration

5 Entries in encyclopedias and dictionaries

1997-2003

1997

7 Peer-reviewed articles in international journals

2002

1997-1998

1995

1991

1990

1985

1984

1979

b) Articles in collaboration

8 Papers in proceedings of conferences

1988

b) Papers in collaboration

1997.

9 Catalogues of exhibitions and notices in catalogues of exhibitions

1 Sole author

1986

2 Co-authored catalogues and entries in exhibition catalogues

10. Short notes and essay reviews

11 Chronicles

1989

12 Translations

13 Thematic and analytical bibliographies

1996-1997

Introduction: Reflections on Alain Touwaide

Bibliography

Part I: and Texts

1 Byzantium

Sur l'origine et la première circulation du manuscrit de Metrodora (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Laur. Plut. 75.3)

I Analyse stratigraphique du manuscrit

Les contenus

Le texte de Metrodora

La Collectio alphabetica

Analyse matérielle

Analyse paléographique

II Reconstructionde la genèse du manuscrit et de sa première circulation

Appendice

Bibliographie

Ein Rezept für Alexios Apokaukos im Kodex E 55, f. 131 verso: Edition und Kontextualisierung (mit 4 Abbildungen)

Die Handschrift

Ein Rezept für Alexios Apokaukos?

Edition des Rezepts

Editionsmethodische Überlegungen

Kontextualisierung

Conclusio

Quellen

Literatur

Los remedios médicos de Tomás Magistro conservados en el Vat. Urb. gr. 67

Bibliografía

Sources

Literature

Kampf der Kulturen oder Wissenstransfer: Überlegungen zur Überlieferung der antiken Medizin im Mittelalter

Literaturverzeichnis

2 Western Europe

Materia medica in Early Medieval England

Manuscripts

Dictionaries and Glossaries

Manfredus de Monte Imperiali, Tractatus de herbis: Preliminary Notes on Its Manuscript Tradition

Introduction.

I From Circa instans to BTract.

II MTract.: Manuscript Tradition, Textual Development, Intellectual Background

III Conclusions

Sources: Manuscripts, Facsimiles and Online Reproductions

The Bewitching of Old English Medical Texts

How the Old English Medical Texts Were Bewitched

A Second Look at 'Charms' in Medical Texts

Eye Salves or Charms?

Aecerbot: Pagan Charm or Christian Ritual?

Charm or Misnamed Herbal Wound Salve? The Famous Nine Herbs

Part II: Texts

A Note on Nicander's 449 and Virgil's Origin of the Bugonia

Conclusion

To the Ailing Traveler: A Pliny-Inspired Late Antique First Aid Handbook

The Medicina Plinii

Travel in the Roman Empire

Adaptation

The First Aid Kit Manual

Niccolò da Reggio, De tiriaca ad Pamphilum: edizione critica

Manoscritti ed edizione a stampa

1 Omissioni di Niccolò rispetto al testo di Galeno

a Omissioni più estese

b Omissioni più ridotte

c Aggiunte di Niccolò rispetto al testo di Galeno

2 Rapporti tra M, P, e Bon.

a Errores coniunctivi

b Bon. contra MP

Bibliografia

Part III: Sciences and Nature

Nature, Art, and Geometry in Greece

Cave Painting

Cave Art and the Evolution of the Human Brain

A Mathematical Method for Hereditary

The Geometry of Spiders and Bees

Spiders

Bees

Migrating Birds and Aquatic Animals

Birds

Salmon

Senses, Art, and Geometric Space

Neolithic Pottery in Greece

Flora and Fauna of Ancient Greece in Art

The Geometry of Mycenean Art

Geometric Pottery

Geometric Pottery and the Genesis of Geometry

Geometric Pottery and Writing

The Fractal Geometry of Nature

Fractals in the Human Body

Fractal Medicine.

Fractals in Nature

Spiral Fractals in Nature

Fractal Geometry in Design Art and Architecture

Epilogue

Accuracy in Measurements of Astronomy and Time in France during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

The Ancients

The New Needs for Accuracy

The Mission at Cayenne

The Longitudes Problem

Conclusions

Ὄφεις παράλογοι: Civil Serpents and Their Uncanny Cousins

I Amphisbaena

II Blind Serpents

III Double-Headed Serpents

IV Flying Serpents

V Gigantic Serpents

VI Lively Serpents

VII Ouroboros Serpents

VIII The Serpent

Primary sources

Sennert, d'Espagnet, and van Helmont in Greek: Three Handwritten Chymical Treatises before the Advent of Newtonianism

The Allegedly Delayed Enlightenment and the Absence of Chemistry in the Greek- Speaking Communities

Sennert's Διάκρισις and Σύγκρισις: The Βιβλίον χυμικὸν τῆς φαρμακοποιΐας by Nikolaos Ieropais of Velisdoni

The Greek Translation of d'Espagnet's by Anastasios Papavasilopoulos

1113: An Autograph Codex that Preserves Overtly Anti-Aristotelian Treatises

Meletios of Athens and the "Helmontian Principles"

Appendix I: Abbreviations and Symbols

Abbreviations

Symbols used in the transcribed text:

Appendix II: Letters and Scripts in Meletios and 1331

Part IV: The Body

Hippocrates' Intuition on the Renal Tubule's Role in Ion Exchange

Aim

Material

Results

Alexander the Great's Lost Mummy: An Archeo-Anthropological Perspective and Review

Introduction and aim

Archeological Evidence: The Coffin: From Gold to Glass

Paleopathological Analyses of the Remains of the Body

Mummification of Alexander's Body.

Molecular and Genetic Investigations of Alexander's Fatal Illness

Evidence of the Damages Caused to Alexander's Tomb or Mummy by Previous Visitors

Evidence of Trauma and Wounds

Traumatic Injuries to the Head

Wounds Caused by Spears

Dagger Wounds

Arrow Wounds

How Reliable Are the Sources?

Physical Appearance of Alexander III

'Reconstructing' the Mummy

Similar to Catholic Saints?

Suggested Investigation of a Mummy Suspected of Being Alexander

Radiocarbon Dating

Isotope Analysis

Genetics

Reversed Facial Reconstruction

Exhibiting Ourselves: On Museums, Bones, and Ethical Issues

Bioarcheology : The Human Skeleton Is Full of Life (and Has a Story to Tell)

The Human Body in the Museum

Displaying the Human Body

Viewing the Human Body

Preparing an Exhibition on the Dead for the Living: Musée romain d'Avenches, Switzerland

Lessons Learned

Part V: Analytical Methods

What Is Clear and More Knowable: Hierarchies of the Senses and Scientific Method in Aristotelian Exegetical Tradition (John Philoponus, 6th century CE)

Sensible Objects: Distance and Differences

Faculties, Senses, and Their Hierarchy: John Philoponus, Commentator on

Gradualism and the Principle of Unity

The Concept and Correspondences of Flavor in Ancient Medical Systems

Taste versus Flavor

Indian Perspectives

The Sages Discuss the Flavors

Caraka (Caraka saṃhitā)

Suśruta (Suśruta saṃhitā)

Aṣṭāṅga saṃgraha

The Six Indian Flavors

Chinese Perspectives

Early Chinese Works

Chinese Medical Foundations

Huangdi nei jing ()

Chinese Herbal Medicine

The Five Chinese Flavors

Greek Perspectives

The Ancient Philosophers

Plato, Timaeus.

Aristotle, On the Soul.

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ISBN:

3-11-077883-1

OCLC:

1530376838