Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Near-Eastern and Galenic Background
6. Some Remarks on Babylonian Pharmacology 31
7. Reconsidering the Term Dreckapotheke for the Ancient Near East 35
8. Galen, Pharmacology and the Boundaries of Medicine: A Reassessment 51
9. Part 2. Pharmacology in Motion: Byzantine and Jewish Traditions
10. Aëtius’ Extraction of Galenic Essence 83
11. The Third Way 103
12. Le ricette cosmetiche nelle enciclopedie mediche tardoantiche 123
13. Paul d’Égine, Galien et l’aspic de Cléopâtre 147
14. Continuity and Innovation in Paul of Aegina’s Chapters on Headaches and Migraines 175
15. Recipes Ascribed to the Scribe and Prophet Ezra in the Byzantine and Syriac Tradition 195
16. Beyond Dreckapotheke, Between Facts and Feces: Talmudic Recipes and Therapies in Context 221
17. Methodological Pitfalls in the Identification of the כוס עיקרין 255
18. The Judaeo-Syriac Medical Fragment from the Cairo Genizah: A New Edition and Analysis 273
19. La sistematizzazione della farmacologia a Bisanzio 301
20. Index locorum 315
21. Index nominum rerumque 327
22. Index codicum 334