The Fifth-Century BCE Rhizotomos Ephesios and Rhizotomic Tools

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments
3. Contents VII
4. Notes on Contributors XIX
5. Introduction 1
6. List of Publications by Alain Touwaide 15
7. Introduction: Reflections on Alain Touwaide 55
8. Part I: Pharmacy
9. Galen’s Approach to Drugs in Simple Medicines 61
10. Galen’s De antidotis: The Art of Formulas in the Roman World 75
11. The Ricettario fiorentino: The First Official European Pharmacopeia 137
12. Part II: Drugs
13. Pharmacology on the Margins: The Significance of Personal Marginal Additions in the Development of Pharmacological Writings in Antiquity and Beyond 159
14. The Controversial Contempt for Perfumes and Ointments in Byzantium 175
15. Early Medieval Herbal Remedies: Preparation and Storage 193
16. Alexander of Tralles, On Gout 211
17. Part III: Archeology of Pharmacy
18. Preliminary Ancient DNA Analysis of Herbal Medicinal Tablets from the Pozzino Shipwreck (Late 2nd Century BCE), Tuscany, Italy 239
19. The Fifth-Century BCE Rhizotomos Ephesios and Rhizotomic Tools 257
20. Contenitori per φάρμακα-medicamenta in epoca ellenistica e romana: i progressi delle conoscenze 285
21. Part IV: Food
22. On Young Hares in a Spiced Sauce: Poisonous Turtledoves and Hunting for Bustards in Anthimus’s De observatione ciborum 331
23. Arab Cuisine for a German Audience: The Dishes in the Schachtafelen der Gesundheit Printed in Strasbourg in 1533: Their Latin and Arabic Sources 355
24. Chili Peppers: The First Stage of World Conquest 387
25. Part V: Society
26. Sinful Bodies 411
27. Healing the ‘Body Politic’: Medical Dimensions of Political Thought in the Greek, Arabic, and Byzantine Traditions 423
28. Ethnopharmacological Information in the Archives of the Spanish Inquisition in Castile 441
29. Using Traditional Mediterranean Herbal Medicine Today: North American Naturopathy 555
30. Part VI: Non-Plant Healing
31. The Persea Tree in the Greco-Egyptian Alchemical Tradition 566
32. Byproducts of Winemaking in Greek Alchemy: Pheklē and Trygi a 587
33. Magie et politique à la fin de l’Ancien Empire égyptien: L’émergence d’une nouvelle plante osirienne 611
34. Part VII: Tradition: East
35. Byzance et l’extrême-orient: Byzance médiateur dans la diffusion de la connaissance entre l’Orient et l’Occident 627
36. Syriac Medicine and Magic: A Troubled History and a New Approach 639
37. Abraham ben Isaac, the Unknown Translator of the Zād al-musāfir by Ibn al-Jazzār 649
38. Part VIII: Tradition: West (Renaissance and Beyond)
39. Pietro Cortona de Udine, medico y helenista 661
40. La primera literatura médica sobre el guayaco (1504–1529) 675
41. John Martyn’s Georgica: Classical Learning, the Plant World, and Botanical Illustration in Eighteenth-Century England 713
42. Part IX: Continuity: Iatrosophia
43. On the Traces of Dioscorides in Iatrosophia Texts from Cyprus 735
44. The Greek Iatrosophia and Family Anxieties 763
45. Farmacùsa: prime ricerche sulle ricette iatrosofiche di tradizione orale nell’area ellenofona della Puglia meridionale (Grecìa Salentina) 791
46. Indexes
47. Introduction 803
48. I Manuscripts, Plants, Remedies
49. II Classical Scholarship
50. III Iatrosophia/Iatrosophic Medicine