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Author Lev, Efraim.

Title Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah / by Efraim Lev and Zohar Amar.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2008]
©2008

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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
Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 7.
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.
Materia medica.
Middle East.
History.
Medicine, Medieval -- Middle East -- History.
Medicine, Medieval.
Jews -- Medicine -- Middle East -- History.
Jews -- Medicine.
Cairo Genizah.
Cairo Genizah.
Materia Medica -- history.
History, Medieval.
Jews -- history.
Middle East.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Amar, Zohar.
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)
9047422503 (electronic book)
9004161201 (Cloth)
9789004161207 (hardback ; alkaline paper)