To the Ailing Traveler: A Pliny-Inspired Late Antique First Aid Handbook

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures and Illustrations XI
5. Notes on Contributors XIII
6. Introduction 1
7. List of Publications by Alain Touwaide 13
8. Introduction: Reflections on Alain Touwaide 53
9. 1 Byzantium
10. Sur l’origine et la première circulation du manuscrit de Metrodora (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Laur. Plut. 75.3) 63
11. Ein Rezept für Alexios Apokaukos im Kodex Vallicellianus E 55, f. 131 verso: Edition und Kontextualisierung (mit 4 Abbildungen) 91
12. Los remedios médicos de Tomás Magistro conservados en el Vat. Urb. gr. 67 113
13. Kampf der Kulturen oder Wissenstransfer: Überlegungen zur Überlieferung der antiken Medizin im Mittelalter 127
14. 2 Western Europe
15. Materia medica in Early Medieval England 135
16. Manfredus de Monte Imperiali, Tractatus de herbis: Preliminary Notes on Its Manuscript Tradition 151
17. The Bewitching of Old English Medical Texts 181
18. Part II: Texts
19. A Note on Nicander’s Alexipharmaca 449 and Virgil’s Origin of the Bugonia 199
20. To the Ailing Traveler: A Pliny-Inspired Late Antique First Aid Handbook 213
21. Niccolò da Reggio, De tiriaca ad Pamphilum: edizione critica 235
22. Part III: Sciences and Nature
23. Nature, Art, and Geometry in Greece 257
24. Accuracy in Measurements of Astronomy and Time in France during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 287
25. Ὄφεις παράλογοι: Civil Serpents and Their Uncanny Cousins 299
26. Sennert, d’Espagnet, and van Helmont in Greek: Three Handwritten Chymical Treatises before the Advent of Newtonianism 333
27. Part IV: The Body
28. Hippocrates’ Intuition on the Renal Tubule’s Role in Ion Exchange 381
29. Alexander the Great’s Lost Mummy: An Archeo-Anthropological Perspective and Review 389
30. Exhibiting Ourselves: On Museums, Bones, and Ethical Issues 429
31. Part V: Analytical Methods
32. What Is Clear and More Knowable: Hierarchies of the Senses and Scientific Method in Aristotelian Exegetical Tradition (John Philoponus, 6^th century CE) 457
33. The Concept and Correspondences of Flavor in Ancient Medical Systems 473
34. Sur les phénomènes aux causes inconnues, Kitāb al-Ḫawaṣṣ de Rāzī : Edition du texte arabe, traduction et analyse 497
35. Part VI: Scientific analysis of the ancient legacy
36. Rudolf Kobert, A Forgotten Pioneer of Ethnopharmacology 543
37. Ancient Mediterranean Plants and Pharmaceutical Sciences: Friedrich August Flückiger, Alexander Tschirch, and Pharmacognosy around 1900 557
38. Pharmacology, Folklore, and Religion: David Macht and the Search for a Menotoxin 585
39. Indexes
40. Contents of Index 611
41. Introduction 613
42. Manuscripts and Texts 615
43. History, Philosophy, Epistemology 627
44. Sciences, Medicine, and Pharmacotherapeutics 645
45. Scholars 661
46. General Index 663