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Author Totelin, Laurence M. V.

Title Hippocratic recipes [electronic resource] : oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth-century Greece / by Laurence M.V. Totelin.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description xviii, 366 p. : maps.
Series Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; v. 34
Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 34.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-326) and indexes.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Hippocrates -- Knowledge -- Pharmacology.
Pharmacology -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
Drug development -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004171541 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004171541 (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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