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Mandrake in ancient Graeco-Roman and early Byzantine medicine [PDF]
Farmacja Polska, 2023 Belonging to Mandragora genus and to the Solanaceae family, mandrake (Mandragora officinarum L.) is a plant native to the Mediterranean area. According to modern science, due to the presence of alkaloids such as atropine, scopolamine, belladonnine and ...
Krzysztof Jagusiak +2 more
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Aconite – a Poison, or a Medicine? Ancient and Early Byzantine Testimonies
Studia Ceranea, 2022 Aconite (Aconitum napellus) was one of the most notorious, poisonous plants in the ancient world. Its dangerous, lethal power – present in leaves, roots, stem, and tuber – was well known to the Greeks and the Romans from the earliest times.
Krzysztof Jagusiak +1 more
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Pharmaceutical Terminology in Ancient and Medieval Time – "Andrachne", "Chrysocolla" and Others
Studia Ceranea, 2023 Ancient and medieval pharmacological and medical texts contain a substantial amount of plant and mineral names. In some cases, the identification is straightforward.
Barbara Zipser +8 more
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Bizans Tıbbi Düşüncesinin Bir Eleştirisi: Timarion Hicvi
Ortaçağ Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 12. yüzyılda yazıldığı tahmin edilen ve anonim bir hiciv olan Timarion metninde, Bizans tıbbi uygulamalarına ve izinde gidilen Galenci tıbbi geleneğin teorilerine ilişkin eleştiriler bulunur.
Neslihan Nom
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Galen’s Recipe for Untypical Sitz Bath (ἐγκάθισμα)
Erga-Logoi, 2023 The article discusses an unusual prescription for a sitz bath (ἐγκάθισμα) derived from Galen’s treatise De compositione medicamentorum per genera. The term ἐγκάθισμα is not used in any other known fragment of the writings of the famous Pergamonian.
Krzysztof Jagusiak, Konrad Tadajczyk
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Studia Ceranea, 2022 Byzantine incubation literature is the term used in research to denote early Byzantine collections of healing miracles (5th–7th century) in which the saint’s miraculous intervention is related to the incubation experience.
Giulia Gollo
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Acceptance of the implementation of dissections in the Byzantium
Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience & Mental Health, 2021 Studying specific collections of great Byzantine authors as Oribasius from Pergamum, Theophilus Protospatharius, Meletius the Iatrosophist and others, it can be understood that in Byzantine era (330 – 1453 AD), there was not stagnation in the research ...
Georgios Panteleakos
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The ancient Greek roots of the term Toxic
Toxicology Reports, 2021 In ancient Greek literature the adjective toxic (Greek: τoξικόν) derives from the noun τόξo, that is the arc. This noun according to the Liddell – Scott – Jones lexicon had several meanings. Apart from the meaning that someone is able to use a bow or the
Konstantinos Laios +4 more
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The role of Christianity in the development of European and Serbian medieval medicine [PDF]
Archive of Oncology, 2010 Being conceived in the name of Christianity, the Church quickly mastered all of Western Europe, including medicine, which was developed in monasteries at first and at universities later on. The first hospitals were built within monasteries, and were used
Antić Radiša
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