A Cretan healer's handbook in the Byzantine tradition
Subtitle: text, translation, and commentary
By: Patricia Ann Clark
Series: Medicine in the medieval Mediterranean; Medicine in the medieval Mediterranean
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng; gre
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780754661016; 9781409435716
Subjects: Medical writing; Greek and Roman Medicine; Materia medica; Materia Medica; Medicine; Healing; History; Medieval Medicine; Medieval History
Description: "In 1930 the Cretan healer Nikolaos Konstantinos Theodorakis of Meronas re-copied a notebook containing medical lore passed down through his family over generations. The present volume offers an edition of this notebook together with an English translation, the first of its kind. It belongs to the genre of iatrosophia, practical handbooks dating mainly to the 17th to 19th centuries which compiled healing wisdom, along with snippets of agricultural, meteorological and veterinary advice, and admixtures of religion, astrology and magic"--Pub. website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-278) and index.

Translated from the Greek.