Hippocratic recipes [electronic resource] : oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth-century Greece / by Laurence M.V. Totelin.
By: Totelin, Laurence M. V.
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BookSeries: Studies in ancient medicine: v. 34.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009Description: xviii, 366 p. : maps ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Hippocrates -- Knowledge -- Pharmacology | Pharmacology -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 | Drug development -- Greece -- History -- To 1500Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 615/.190938 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-326) and indexes.
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.
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