{"title":"On Theriac to Piso, Attributed to Galen.","authors":"R. Leigh","doi":"10.1163/9789004306905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004306905","url":null,"abstract":"Robert Leigh offers a critical edition with translation into English, commentary and introduction of the pharmacological treatise On Theriac to Piso traditionally attributed to Galen, and reviews the evidence as to the validity of the attribution to Galen.","PeriodicalId":82835,"journal":{"name":"Studies in ancient medicine","volume":"50 1","pages":"vii-ix, 1-326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/9789004306905","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64525398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Philosophy and dietetics in the Hippocratic on Regimen. A delicate balance of health.","authors":"H. Bartoš","doi":"10.1163/9789004289550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004289550","url":null,"abstract":"This book offers the first extended study published in English on the Hippocratic treatise On Regimen , one of the most important pre-Platonic documents of the discussion of human nature and other topics at the intersection of ancient medicine and philosophy.","PeriodicalId":82835,"journal":{"name":"Studies in ancient medicine","volume":"111 1","pages":"1-313"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/9789004289550","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64521268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The tools of Asclepius surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.","authors":"Lawrence J Bliquez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82835,"journal":{"name":"Studies in ancient medicine","volume":"43 ","pages":"IX-XXXV, 1-439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33164455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Philosophy and dietetics in the Hippocratic on Regimen. A delicate balance of health.","authors":"Hynek Bartoš","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82835,"journal":{"name":"Studies in ancient medicine","volume":"44 ","pages":"1-313"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33235690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The tools of Asclepius surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.","authors":"L. Bliquez","doi":"10.1163/9789004283596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004283596","url":null,"abstract":"In The Tools of Asclepius Lawrence Bliquez provides a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the surgical instruments and paraphernalia used by Greco-Roman pharmacists, physicians and surgeons.","PeriodicalId":82835,"journal":{"name":"Studies in ancient medicine","volume":"40 1","pages":"IX-XXXV, 1-439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/9789004283596","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64519739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"As a matter of fact, this is not difficult to understand!\": the addresses to the reader in Greek and Latin pharmacological poetry.","authors":"Svetlana Hautala","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Once written down, every pharmacological text becomes open to all kinds of distortion of its content. It may have been inaccurately copied, for example, or its dosages may have been intentionally altered. The transcription in verse of pharmacological preparations was supposed to protect the text against any distortion, for metrical demands of verse do not easily allow for the substitution of the specified quantities of a remedy's ingredients. Furthermore, rhythmical poetry can facilitate memorization of the prescriptions. Beside its very practical functions, this production was not alien to inspiration from the Muses, and physicians shared with poets the right to invoke the gods' favour for their lines. The present paper focuses on the addresses to the readers in Greek and Latin pharmacological poetry; it shows how the practical function of preserving and transmitting information was interwoven with the author's own literary ambitions.</p>","PeriodicalId":82835,"journal":{"name":"Studies in ancient medicine","volume":"42 ","pages":"183-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32646114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physical pain in Celsus' On Medicine.","authors":"Aurélien Gautherie","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Celsus' approach to physical pain in his On Medicine (De medicina) is both subtle and extensive. The encyclopaedist shows a deep consciousness of the difficulties of its evaluation and tries to tackle related issues as well as he can. Indeed, taking pain into consideration seems to play a major part in the relationship between the patient and the practitioner.</p>","PeriodicalId":82835,"journal":{"name":"Studies in ancient medicine","volume":"42 ","pages":"137-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32646112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Magical formulas in Pliny's natural history: origins, sources, parallels.","authors":"Patricia Gaillard-Seux","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pliny the Elder was the first Latin medical author to mention magical formulas. His writings refer to twenty-seven in all, thirteen being of the simplest type. The origin is discernible for two-thirds of them. A Latin origin is noted for only two of them, and two are given in Greek The Greek influence seems decisive, with an important role played by the sympathies-antipathies and Pseudo-Democritus trend. Nine magical formulas are attributed to magi and one is also found in the Cyranides (Kupsilonrhoalphavídeltaepsilonzeta) and the Geoponica (gammaepsilonomegapiovichialpha). An author is named for only one incantation: King Attalus III of Pergamum. One carmen probably dates back to a model existing in Classical Greece, which is likely to be true even for one of the incantations in Greek. The text of the latter needs to be better understood in order for one to grasp its principle of action and perhaps its origin.</p>","PeriodicalId":82835,"journal":{"name":"Studies in ancient medicine","volume":"42 ","pages":"201-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32646115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Memorial\" strategies of court physicians in the imperial period.","authors":"S. Barbara","doi":"10.1163/9789004273863_004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004273863_004","url":null,"abstract":"Court physicians enjoyed an outstanding prominence. They were able to perpetuate their memory with ease, an aim of the greatest importance to individuals in antiquity. This paper, using historical, literary, anthropological, and iconographic approaches, investigates the strategies used by those privileged physicians to perpetuate their memory. After focussing on key figures like Antonius Musa, Stertinius Xenophon, and the Statilii and on lesser known personalities like Philotas of Amphissa, Euphorbos, and Andromachus the Elder, it appears that those physicians felt they had to rely mainly on literary works to achieve this end, although uncertain transmission often rendered it inadequate for the purpose. Benefactory practices were of greater weight because their memory was more efficiently perpetuated by members of their family and their native cities as demonstrated by epigraphy and numismatics.","PeriodicalId":82835,"journal":{"name":"Studies in ancient medicine","volume":"42 1","pages":"25-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64517194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The identity, legal status and origin of the Roman army's medical staff in the imperial age.","authors":"Pascal Bader","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>More than a hundred epigraphic documents on different writing materials refer to medical staff in the Roman army. This paper focuses on the identity, legal status and origin of the Roman army medical staff--a topic which until now has hardly been studied. Various titles were conferred to a large number of medical staff in every unit of the Roman army; the doctors (medici) were the most numerous and had different ranks and status. The onomastic study of the inscriptions reveals a large proportion of Roman citizens in the military medical service. Most of them are ingenui with a Latin name, but freedmen with a Greek origin are frequently attested, though less so than among civilian doctors. These results dispel some misconceptions such as the Greek origin of most military doctors, which can be explained by the legal requirements of the recruitment into the Roman army.</p>","PeriodicalId":82835,"journal":{"name":"Studies in ancient medicine","volume":"42 ","pages":"43-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32646107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}