Description |
1 online resource (x, 619 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series,
1570-1484 ;
v. 7
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Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 7.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-598) and indexes. |
Contents |
Introduction -- Practical materia medica and its sources -- The identification of materia medica in the Genizah and method of presenting the data -- Prescriptions, lists, letters and their analysis -- Inventory of practical materia medica of the Genizah people, its analysis, and comparisons with the theoretical inventory -- Materia medica: detailed items -- Materia medica: concise items -- Epilogue. |
Summary |
Provides fresh insight to the practice of medical care in the medieval world. The authors examine the medicinal prescriptions and references to materia medica of the Cairo Genizah by combining the approaches of ethnobotany and history of medicine. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Materia medica -- Middle East -- History.
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Materia medica. |
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Middle East. |
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History. |
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Medicine, Medieval -- Middle East -- History.
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Medicine, Medieval. |
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Jews -- Medicine -- Middle East -- History.
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Jews -- Medicine. |
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Cairo Genizah.
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Cairo Genizah. |
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Materia Medica -- history. |
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History, Medieval. |
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Jews -- history. |
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Middle East. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Author |
Amar, Zohar.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Lev, Efraim. Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2008 9789004161207 9004161201 (DLC) 2007031992 (OCoLC)164802411 |
ISBN |
9789047422501 (electronic book) |
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9047422503 (electronic book) |
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9004161201 (Cloth) |
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9789004161207 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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