Hippocratic recipes oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth-century Greece - Totelin, Laurence M. V.; ebrary, Inc. (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009)
Oral transmission of medical knowledge and written recipes -- The history of the written catalogues of recipes -- Hippocratic recipes between home remedies and haute medecine -- Imports, geographical determinism, and influences : the use of exotic and luxury ingredients in the Hippocratic catalogues of recipes -- Fertility and sex : the symbolism attached to some of the ingredients of the Hippocratic gynaecological recipes -- Reading, studying, and using the Hippocratic catalogues of recipes -- The afterlife of Hippocratic recipes.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-326) and indexes.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Hippocrates -- Knowledge -- Pharmacology; Pharmacology -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.; Drug development -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.; Electronic books