TY  - BOOK
AU  - Totelin,Laurence M.V.
TI  - Hippocratic recipes: oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth-century Greece 
T2  - Brill eBook titles 2009
SN  - 9789047424864
AV  - RM300 .T68 2009
U1  - 615/.190938 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Hippocrates
KW  - Hippocrates.
KW  - Pharmaceutical Preparations
KW  - history
KW  - Drug Compounding
KW  - Drug Prescriptions
KW  - Greek World
KW  - History, Ancient
KW  - Pharmacology
KW  - Drug development
KW  - Greece
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-326) and indexes; Preliminary Materials; L.M.V. Totelin --; Introduction - Under The Spell Of The Pharmakon; L.M.V. Totelin --; Chapter One. Oral Transmission Of Medical Knowledge And Written Recipes; L.M.V. Totelin --; Chapter Two. The History Of The Written Catalogues Of Recipes; L.M.V. Totelin --; Chapter Three. Hippocratic Recipes Between Home Remedies And Haute Médecine; L.M.V. Totelin --; Chapter Four. Imports, Geographical Determinism And Influences: The Use Of Exotic And Luxury Ingredients In The Hippocratic Catalogues Of Recipes; L.M.V. Totelin --; Chapter Five. Fertility And Sex: The Symbolism Attached To Some Ingredients Of The Hippocratic Gynaecological Recipes; L.M.V. Totelin --; Chapter Six. Reading, Studying And Using The Hippocratic Catalogues Of Recipes; L.M.V. Totelin --; Chapter Seven. The Afterlife Of Hippocratic Recipes; L.M.V. Totelin --; Conclusions - The Fluidity Of Pharmacological Knowledge; L.M.V. Totelin --; Bibliography; L.M.V. Totelin --; General Index; L.M.V. Totelin --; Index Of Passages Cited; L.M.V. Totelin --; Index Of Ingredients; L.M.V. Totelin; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004171541.i-366
ER  -