John the Physician's Therapeutics : a medical handbook in vernacular Greek / / by Barbara Zipser.

• Superior document: Studies in ancient medicine, v. 37
• Author: Zipser, Barbara.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 37.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The Therapeutics of John the Physician is a medical handbook from the thirteenth century, holding important new evidence on medicine as craft. Of particular interest is a vernacular version of the text, which also contains a commentary. Here, an unknown reviser vividly describes cases and medical procedures, a type of knowledge rarely encountered in scholarly texts. In the present volume, the Therapeutics is published for the first time, along with a translation and an introduction to the topic. Apart from insights into medical history, the text also yields a large quantity of new material on the medical terminology used in everyday language and brings to life the development from ancient to modern Greek. The editorial technique may be of interest to those working on digital humanities.

Table of Contents

An unusual topic -- The text -- Other texts -- The manuscript tradition -- Editorial methods -- Language, place and date -- Medical practice.