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Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece: The Medical Recipes of Gymnasios Lauriotis in Context PDF

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by Steven M. Oberhelman| 2020| 398 pages| 4.7| English

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This book is a study of three iatrosofia the notebooks of traditional healers from the Ottoman and modern periods of Greece The main text is a collection of the medical recipes of the monk Gymnasios Lauriotis b 1858 Gymnasios had a working knowledge of over 2 000 plants and their use in medical treatments Two earlier iatrosofia are used for parallels for Gymnasios s recipes One was written c 1800 by a practical doctor near Khania Crete and illustrated by a second hand The second iatrosofion dates to the sixteenth century ascribed to a Meletios the text survives in the Codex Vindobonensis gr med 53 The contents of these and other iatrosofia are predominantly medical with many of the remedies taken from folk medicine classical and Hellenistic pharmacological writers and Galen The book opens with a biography of the monk Gymnasios and his recipes and then a description of the Cretan and Meletios iatrosofia The iatrosophia their role in Greek medical history and the methods of healing are the subject of chapter 2 The Greek text of Gymnasios s recipes are accompanied by a facing English translation A commentary offers for each of Gymnasios s recipes passages translated into English from the two other iatrosophia to serve as parallels as well as an analysis of the pharmacopoeia in the medical texts The book concludes with Greek and English indices of the material medica plants mineral and animal substances and the diseases and then a general index

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Author:Steven M. Oberhelman
Publication Year:2020
ISBN:9783110664430
Pages:398
Language:English
File Size:4.7
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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