Title: A Cretan healer's handbook in the Byzantine tradition
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.
Subjects: Medical writing, Greek and Roman Medicine, Materia medica, Medicine, Healing, History, Medieval Medicine, Medieval History, Homeopathy, Médecine grecque et romaine, Médecine médiévale, Médecine, Histoire, MEDICAL
Places: Crete, Greece
People: Nikolaos Konstantinos Theodorakis
Time periods: To 1500