ISBN:
9789004235632
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 187 pages)
,
illustrations
Year of publication:
2012
Series Statement:
Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval t. 55
Series Statement:
Cambridge Genizah studies series v. 4
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Medical Prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical Medicine and Pharmacology in Medieval Egypt. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series 4
Keywords:
Jews Medicine
;
Medicine, Medieval Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
;
Pharmacology History To 1500
;
Drugs History To 1500
;
Cairo Genizah Catalogs
Abstract:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Theoretical Background of the Genizah Prescriptions -- The Practical Medicine of the Cairo Genizah -- Thirty Selected Prescriptions -- The Findings and Their Significance -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.
Abstract:
The manuscripts of the Cairo Genizah are a unique source for medieval medical history. In Medical Prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections , Lev and Chipman offer an insight into the everyday practical medicine of medieval Egypt, which reflects medical practice in the Eastern Mediterranean as a whole, by analysing thirty selected prescriptions from the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection (Cambridge University Library). The prescriptions, which are in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic, are transcribed and translated, with accompanying commentaries, photographs and glossaries. Introductory chapters discuss the theoretical background of the prescriptions and the practical medicine of the Cairo Genizah, while the conclusion considers their significance for the study of the medieval medical tradition
Note:
"The manuscripts of the Cairo Genizah are a unique source for medieval medical history. In Medical prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah collections, Lev and Chipman offer an insight into the everyday practical medicine of medieval Egypt, which reflects medical practice in the eastern Mediterranean as a whole, by analysing thirty selected prescriptions from the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection (Cambridge University Library). The prescriptions, which are in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic, are transcribed and translated, with accompanying commentaries, photographs and glossaries. Introductory chapters discuss the theoretical background of the prescriptions and the practical medicine of the Cairo Genizah, while the conclusion considers their significance for the study of the medieval medical tradition"--P. [4] of cover
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Companion to: Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah / Efraim Lev and Zohar Amar. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-163) and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004235632
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