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Medicine and pharmacy in Byzantine hospitals : a study of the extant formularies / David Bennett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bennett, David, 1940-2012
- Series:
- Medicine in the medieval Mediterranean
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Ancient--History.
- Medicine, Ancient.
- Pharmacy--Byzantine Empire--History.
- Pharmacy.
- Hospitals, Medieval--Byzantine Empire.
- Hospitals, Medieval.
- Medicine, Medieval.
- Formularies as Topic--history.
- History of Pharmacy.
- History, Ancient.
- History, Medieval.
- Hospitals--history.
- Byzantium.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Medical Subjects:
- Formularies as Topic--history.
- History of Pharmacy.
- History, Ancient.
- History, Medieval.
- Hospitals--history.
- Byzantium.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
- Contents:
- From hostel to hospital: the Byzantine xenôn
- Uncertainties
- Can history be written from manuscripts?
- "In conformity with xenôn practice": the Therapeutikai
- On the symptom of acute and chronic affections: Romanos, Theophilos and the Prostagai
- Armoury, monastery, infirmary: the Mangana xenôn remedies; codex Vaticanus graecus 299
- The codex Parisinus graecus 2194, ff. 441r-450v (Xenoika I and II)
- In the great porticoed street of Maurianos?: the Mauraganos xenôn text
- Conclusions
- Introduction
- Texts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781409441656
- 1409441652
- OCLC:
- 953363716
- Publisher Number:
- 90104462984
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