Hippocratic recipes oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth-century Greece /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Series: | Studies in ancient medicine ;
v. 34. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of 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.