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Hippocratic recipes oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth-century Greece / by Totelin, Laurence M. V.

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.…”
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Bodily fluids in antiquity /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Mark Bradley, Victoria Leonard, and Laurence Totelin -- Fluid vocabulary : flux in the lexicon of bodily emissions / Amy Coker -- A valid excuse for a day off work : menstruation in an ancient Egyptian village / Rosalind Janssen -- Uterine bleeding, knowledge and emotion in ancient Greek medical and magical representations / Irene Salvo -- Puellae gently glow : scent, sweat and the real in Latin love elegy and Ovid's didactic works / Jane Burkowski -- Overflowing bodies and a pandora of ivory : the pure humours of an erotic surrogate / Catalina Popescu -- The eyes have it : from generative fluids to vision rays / Julie Laskaris -- 'Infertile' and 'sub-fertile' semen in the Hippocratic corpus and the biological works of Aristotle / Rebecca Fallas -- Say it with fluids : what the body exudes and retains when Juvenal's couple relationships go awry / Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet -- Flabby flesh and foetal formation : body fluidity and foetal sex differentiation in Ancient Greek medicine / Tara Mulder -- One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? …”
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