John the Physician's Therapeutics : a medical handbook in vernacular Greek /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Zipser, Barbara.
Imprint:	Boston : Brill. c2009.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English Ancient Greek
Series:	Brill eBook titles 2009 Studies in Ancient Medicine 37. Studies in Ancient Medicine Online, ISBN: 9789004380813.
Subject:	John the Physician, -- 13th cent. -- Therapeutics. John the Physician, -- 13th cent. -- Therapeutics. Therapeutics. History, Medieval. Manuscripts, Medical. Medicine, Greek and Roman. Medicine, Medieval.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13530514

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ISBN:	9789047430674 9789004177239
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Available to subscribing member institutions only. Parallel Medieval Greek text and English translation.
Summary:	The Therapeutics of John the Physician is a medical handbook from the thirteenth century, holding important new evidence on medicine as craft. Of particular interest is a vernacular version of the text, which also contains a commentary. Here, an unknown reviser vividly describes cases and medical procedures, a type of knowledge rarely encountered in scholarly texts. In the present volume, the Therapeutics is published for the first time, along with a translation and an introduction to the topic. Apart from insights into medical history, the text also yields a large quantity of new material on the medical terminology used in everyday language and brings to life the development from ancient to modern Greek. The editorial technique may be of interest to those working on digital humanities.
Other form:	John the Physician's Therapeutics 9789004177239 (hardback : alk. paper) 900417723X (hardback : alk. paper)
Standard no.:	10.1163/ej.9789004177239.i-378

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