The Healing past : : pharmaceuticals in the biblical and rabbinic world / / edited by Irene and Walter Jacob.
This volume focuses on our present knowledge of pharmaceuticals in the Biblical and Rabbinic world, a subject which has received little attention. Although many aspects of ancient Near Eastern cultural life have been studied thoroughly, no one has dealt with the pharmaceutical knowledge of this peri...
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| Superior document: | Studies in ancient medicine, v. 7 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1993. |
| Year of Publication: | 1993 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Ancient Medicine
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ( xv, 126 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Irene and Walter Jacob
- Pharmacology and Dietetics in the Bible and Talmud / Fred Rosner
- Medicinal Plants of the Bible—Another View / Walter Jacob
- Drugs and Pharmaceuticals in Ancient Mesopotamia / Marvin A. Powell
- Ancient Egyptian Pharmaceutical Plants and the Eastern Mediterranean / Renate Germer
- Ricinus Communis—The Miracle Tree through Four Thousand Years / Irene Jacob
- Medicinal Drugs in the Works of Flavius Josephus / Samuel Kottek
- Asaph the Jew and Greco-Roman Pharmaceutics / Stephen Newmyer
- Index of Materia Medica / Irene and Walter Jacob
- Studies in Ancient Medicine / Irene and Walter Jacob.