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Tome 3: Remedies. Pharmacy, Drugs, Archaeology, Tradition

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Medical Traditions
Manuscripts, Plants, Remedies in the Mediterranean Traditions: Studies across Disciplines for Alain Touwaide
Languages: English, French, Italian
Published/Copyright: 2025
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Medical Traditions
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Medical Traditions

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This three-volume set of essays is dedicated to Alain Touwaide, known for his far-reaching investigations in fields such as ancient medicine, botany, pharmacy, texts and manuscripts, the classical tradition, translation, the history of science, ethnopharmacology, and plant therapies. The essays, penned by 80 international scholars and researchers and written in six languages, are grouped into three broad categories—Manuscripts, Plants, and Remedies—to reflect Alain’s main areas of research. Each category is broken into subgroups, such as manuscripts, texts, and science; botany; gardens, materia medica, pharmacy, drugs, archaeology, medical traditions, and continuity of scientific knowledge in the East and West. The papers reach across many fields of scholarship, science, and medicine and are, necessarily and fundamentally, trans-disciplinary, trans-chronological, and trans-geographic. These volumes are not so much a Festschrift as an approach to Alain’s work through many disciplines and methods, a discussion of the current status of each field, and an opening into new perspectives.

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Steven M. Oberhelman, Texas A&M University, USA.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Acknowledgments

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    Contents

    VII
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    Notes on Contributors

    XIX
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    Introduction

    1
    Steven M. Oberhelman
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    List of Publications by Alain Touwaide

    15
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    Introduction: Reflections on Alain Touwaide

    55
    Nancy J. Turner
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  • Part I: Pharmacy
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    Galen’s Approach to Drugs in Simple Medicines

    61
    John Wilkins
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    Galen’s De antidotis: The Art of Formulas in the Roman World

    75
    Constantinos Grivas
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    The Ricettario fiorentino: The First Official European Pharmacopeia

    137
    Donatella Lippi and Laura Vannucci
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  • Part II: Drugs
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    Pharmacology on the Margins: The Significance of Personal Marginal Additions in the Development of Pharmacological Writings in Antiquity and Beyond

    159
    Nicola Reggiani
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    The Controversial Contempt for Perfumes and Ointments in Byzantium

    175
    Giulia Freni
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    Early Medieval Herbal Remedies: Preparation and Storage

    193
    Frances Watkins
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    Alexander of Tralles, On Gout

    211
    Natale Gaspare de Santo, Carmela Bisaccia and Luca Salvatore De Santo
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  • Part III: Archeology of Pharmacy
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    Preliminary Ancient DNA Analysis of Herbal Medicinal Tablets from the Pozzino Shipwreck (Late 2nd Century BCE), Tuscany, Italy

    239
    Robert C. Fleischer and Emanuela Appetiti
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    The Fifth-Century BCE Rhizotomos Ephesios and Rhizotomic Tools

    257
    Despina Ignatiadou
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    Contenitori per φάρμακα-medicamenta in epoca ellenistica e romana: i progressi delle conoscenze

    285
    Luigi Taborelli
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    On Young Hares in a Spiced Sauce: Poisonous Turtledoves and Hunting for Bustards in Anthimus’s De observatione ciborum

    331
    Maciej Kokoszko and Zofia Rzeźnicka
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    Arab Cuisine for a German Audience: The Dishes in the Schachtafelen der Gesundheit Printed in Strasbourg in 1533: Their Latin and Arabic Sources

    355
    Melitta Weiss Adamson
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    Chili Peppers: The First Stage of World Conquest

    387
    Andrew Dalby
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  • Part V: Society
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    Sinful Bodies

    411
    Albrecht Berger
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    Healing the ‘Body Politic’: Medical Dimensions of Political Thought in the Greek, Arabic, and Byzantine Traditions

    423
    Glen M. Cooper
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    Ethnopharmacological Information in the Archives of the Spanish Inquisition in Castile

    441
    Diego Rivera, Antonio García- García, Alonso Verde, Concepción Obón, José Fajardo, Vicente Consuegra, Francisco Alcaraz, Segundo Ríos, Arturo Valdés, Alejandro del Moral and Emilio Laguna
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    Using Traditional Mediterranean Herbal Medicine Today: North American Naturopathy

    555
    Eric Yarnell
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  • Part VI: Non-Plant Healing
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    The Persea Tree in the Greco-Egyptian Alchemical Tradition

    566
    Matteo Martelli
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    Byproducts of Winemaking in Greek Alchemy: Pheklē and Trygi a

    587
    Gerasimos Merianos
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    Magie et politique à la fin de l’Ancien Empire égyptien: L’émergence d’une nouvelle plante osirienne

    611
    Thierry Bardinet
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  • Part VII: Tradition: East
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    Byzance et l’extrême-orient: Byzance médiateur dans la diffusion de la connaissance entre l’Orient et l’Occident

    627
    Pedro Badenas de la Peña
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    Syriac Medicine and Magic: A Troubled History and a New Approach

    639
    Siam Bhayro
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    Abraham ben Isaac, the Unknown Translator of the Zād al-musāfir by Ibn al-Jazzār

    649
    Gerrit Bos
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  • Part VIII: Tradition: West (Renaissance and Beyond)
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    Pietro Cortona de Udine, medico y helenista

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    Teresa Martínez Manzano
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    La primera literatura médica sobre el guayaco (1504–1529)

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    Justo Hernández
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    John Martyn’s Georgica: Classical Learning, the Plant World, and Botanical Illustration in Eighteenth-Century England

    713
    Craig Kallendorf
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  • Part IX: Continuity: Iatrosophia
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    On the Traces of Dioscorides in Iatrosophia Texts from Cyprus

    735
    Andreas Lardos
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    The Greek Iatrosophia and Family Anxieties

    763
    Patricia Ann Clark
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    Farmacùsa: prime ricerche sulle ricette iatrosofiche di tradizione orale nell’area ellenofona della Puglia meridionale (Grecìa Salentina)

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    Francesco Giannachi
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  • Indexes
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    Introduction

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    I Manuscripts, Plants, Remedies

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    II Classical Scholarship

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    III Iatrosophia/Iatrosophic Medicine

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eBook published on:
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Hardcover published on:
August 21, 2025
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9783110776355
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Front matter:
24
Main content:
882
Illustrations:
17
Coloured Illustrations:
60
Tables:
21
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2
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110780062
eBook ISBN: 9783110780062
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Botany; Medicine; Pharmacy; History of Science
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Students and scholars of Classics, Medicine and Pharmacology
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