Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- And Fourth-Century GreeceLaurence M. V. Totelin "Hippocratic Recipes" is the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological and a sociocultural point of view. Drawing on studies in the fields of classics, social history of medicine, and anthropology, this book offers new insights into the production and use of pharmacological knowledge in the classical world. In particular, it assesses the deep interactions between oral and written traditions in the transmission of this knowledge. Recipes are addressed as texts, but the existence of a ~missing linksa (TM) in the written tradition are acknowledged. |
Contents
Introduction Under the spell of the pharmakon | 1 |
Chapter One Oral transmission of medical knowledge and written recipes | 21 |
Chapter Two The history of the written catalogues of recipes | 67 |
Chapter Three Hippocratic recipes between home remedies and Haute Médecine | 111 |
The use of exotic and luxury ingredients in the Hippocratic catalogues of recipes | 141 |
The symbolism attached to some ingredients of the Hippocratic gynaecological recipes | 197 |
Chapter Six Reading studying and using the Hippocratic Catalogues of recipes | 225 |
Chapter Seven The afterlife of Hippocratic recipes | 259 |
Conclusions The fluidity of pharmacological knowledge | 297 |
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