Hippocratic recipes : oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth-century Greece / / by Laurence M.V. Totelin.

Hippocratic Recipes is the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological and a sociocultural point of view. Drawing on studies in the fields...

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Superior document:Studies in ancient medicine, v. 34
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 34.
Physical Description:1 online resource (384 pages)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Oral transmission of medical knowledge and written recipes
  • The history of the written catalogues of recipes
  • Hippocratic recipes between home remedies and haute medecine
  • Imports, geographical determinism, and influences : the use of exotic and luxury ingredients in the Hippocratic catalogues of recipes
  • Fertility and sex : the symbolism attached to some of the ingredients of the Hippocratic gynaecological recipes
  • Reading, studying, and using the Hippocratic catalogues of recipes
  • The afterlife of Hippocratic recipes.