Hippocratic recipes
Subtitle: oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth-century Greece
By: by Laurence M.V. Totelin.
Series: Studies in ancient medicine -- v. 34
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9789004171541
Subjects: Hippocrates -- Knowledge -- Pharmacology; Hippocrates; Pharmacology -- Greece -- History -- To 1500; Drug development -- Greece -- History -- To 1500; Pharmaceutical Preparations -- history; Drug Compounding -- history; Greek World; History, Ancient; Pharmacology -- history; Prescriptions, Drug -- history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Oral transmission of medical knowledge and written recipes; title: The history of the written catalogues of recipes; title: Hippocratic recipes between home remedies and haute medecine; title: Imports, geographical determinism, and influences : the use of exotic and luxury ingredients in the Hippocratic catalogues of recipes; title: Fertility and sex : the symbolism attached to some of the ingredients of the Hippocratic gynaecological recipes; title: Reading, studying, and using the Hippocratic catalogues of recipes; title: The afterlife of Hippocratic recipes.