Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah
By: by Efraim Lev and Zohar Amar.
Contributors: Amar, Zohar.
Series: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series -- v. 7; Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series (Brill Academic Publishers) -- v. 7.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 619
ISBN-13: 9789004161207
Subjects: Materia medica -- Middle East -- History; Medicine, Medieval -- Middle East -- History; Jews -- Medicine -- Middle East -- History; Cairo Genizah; Materia Medica -- history -- Middle East; History, Medieval -- Middle East; Jews -- history -- Middle East
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [581]-598) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Practical materia medica and its sources; title: The identification of materia medica in the Genizah and method of presenting the data; title: Prescriptions, lists, letters and their analysis; title: Inventory of practical materia medica of the Genizah people, its analysis, and comparisons with the theoretical inventory; title: Materia medica: detailed items; title: Materia medica: concise items; title: Epilogue.