"Galen studies are on the rise..." according to the foreword, yet many of his texts remain generally unknown, including Critical Days, which "...has not been edited, translated, or systematically stud
Scholars have made conflicting claims for Byzantine hospitals as medical institutions and as the forebears of the modern hospital. In this study is the first systematic examination of the evidence of
This book presents an edition of the Questiones super libro a€?De Animalibusa€? Aristotelis, a work by one of the greatest philosophers and physicians of the 13th century, Peter of Spain (later Pope J
Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West brings together eleven papers by leading scholars in ancient and medieval medicine and pharmacy. Fittingly, the volume honors
This book presents a uniquely broad and pioneering history of premodern toxicology by exploring how late medieval and early modern (c. 1200–1600) physicians discussed the relationship between poison,
Clark (Greek and Roman studies, U. of Victoria, Canada) presents an edition, with facing pages of English translation, of Iatrosophion by Cretan healer Nikolaos Konstantinos Theodorakis. The text was
Serapion in Carrara Padua: The Late-Medieval Fortuna of an Arabic Herbal examines the afterlife of the Cordovan Arab Ibn SarAbA?a€?s thirteenth-century pharmacopeia in the illustrated edition commissi
Manuscripts containing Greek medical texts were inventoried by author and work at the beginning of the 20th century by a group of philologists under the direction of Hermann Diels. Useful as it was -
