Medical prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah collections : practical medicine and pharmacology in medieval Egypt / / by Efraim Lev, Leigh Chipman.
The manuscripts of the Cairo Genizah are a unique source for medieval medical history. In Medical Prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections , Lev and Chipman offer an insight into the everyday practical medicine of medieval Egypt, which reflects medical practice in the Eastern Mediterranean...
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| Superior document: | Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval, t. 55 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge Genizah studies series ;
v. 4 Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 55. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (195 p.) |
| Notes: | Companion to: Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah / Efraim Lev and Zohar Amar. 2008. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- The Theoretical Background of the Genizah Prescriptions
- The Practical Medicine of the Cairo Genizah
- Thirty Selected Prescriptions
- The Findings and Their Significance
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index.