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Hippocratic recipes : oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth-century Greece /

Totelin, Laurence M. V.

Hippocratic recipes : oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth-century Greece / by Laurence M.V. Totelin. - 1 online resource. - Brill eBook titles 2009 . - Studies in Ancient Medicine 34. Studies in Ancient Medicine Online, ISBN: 9789004380813. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-326) and indexes.

Preliminary Materials / Introduction - Under The Spell Of The Pharmakon / Chapter One. Oral Transmission Of Medical Knowledge And Written Recipes / Chapter Two. The History Of The Written Catalogues Of Recipes / Chapter Three. Hippocratic Recipes Between Home Remedies And Haute Médecine / Chapter Four. Imports, Geographical Determinism And Influences: The Use Of Exotic And Luxury Ingredients In The Hippocratic Catalogues Of Recipes / Chapter Five. Fertility And Sex: The Symbolism Attached To Some Ingredients Of The Hippocratic Gynaecological Recipes / Chapter Six. Reading, Studying And Using The Hippocratic Catalogues Of Recipes / Chapter Seven. The Afterlife Of Hippocratic Recipes / Conclusions - The Fluidity Of Pharmacological Knowledge / Bibliography / General Index / Index Of Passages Cited / Index Of Ingredients / L.M.V. Totelin -- L.M.V. Totelin -- L.M.V. Totelin -- L.M.V. Totelin -- L.M.V. Totelin -- L.M.V. Totelin -- L.M.V. Totelin -- L.M.V. Totelin -- L.M.V. Totelin -- L.M.V. Totelin -- L.M.V. Totelin -- L.M.V. Totelin -- L.M.V. Totelin -- L.M.V. Totelin.

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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 of classics, social history of medicine, and anthropology, this book offers new insights into the production and use of pharmacological knowledge in the classical world. In particular, it assesses the deep interactions between oral and written traditions in the transmission of this knowledge. Recipes are addressed as texts, but the existence of ‘missing links’ in the written tradition are acknowledged.

9789047424864

10.1163/ej.9789004171541.i-366 DOI

2008035399

GBA8A6219 bnb

014708885 Uk 101481054 DNLM B0900906 bccb


Hippocrates--Pharmacology.
Hippocrates.


Pharmaceutical Preparations--history.
Drug Compounding--history.
Drug Prescriptions--history.
Greek World.
History, Ancient.
Pharmacology--history.
Drug development--History--Greece--To 1500.
Pharmacology--History--Greece--To 1500.

RM300 / .T68 2009

615/.190938

QV 11 GG6 / T717h 2008 W1 / ST918K v.34 2009