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Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals - A study of the extant formularies (Paperback)
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Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals - A study of the extant formularies (Paperback)
Series: Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean
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Scholars have made conflicting claims for Byzantine hospitals as
medical institutions and as the forebears of the modern hospital.
In this study is the first systematic examination of the evidence
of the xenon texts, or Xenonika, on which all such claims must in
part rest. These texts, compiled broadly between the ninth and
thirteenth centuries, are also transcribed or edited, with the
exception of the combined texts of Romanos and Theophilos that, the
study proposes, were originally a single manual and teaching work
for doctors, probably based on xenon practice. A schema of their
combined chapter headings sets out the unified structure of this
text. A short handlist briefly describes the principal manuscripts
referred to throughout the study. The introduction briefly examines
our evidence for the xenones from the early centuries of the East
Roman Empire to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Chapter 3
examines the texts in xenon medical practice and compares them to
some other medical manuals and remedy texts of the Late period and
to their structures. The xenon-ascribed texts are discussed one by
one in chapters 4-8; the concluding chapter 9 draw together the
common, as well as the divergent, aspects of each text and looks to
the comparative evidence for hospital medical practice of the time
in the West.
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