Medicine And Pharmacy In Byzantine Hospitals

Author : David Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317010746

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Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals by David Bennett Pdf

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 xenôn 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 xenôn 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 xenônes 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 xenôn-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.

Author : Timothy S. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112009405389

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The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire by Timothy S. Miller Pdf

Medical historians have traditionally claimed that modern hospitals emerged during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Premodern hospitals, according to many scholars, existed mainly as refuges for the desperately poor and sick, providing patients with little or no medical care. Challenging this view in a compelling survey of hospitals in the East Roman Empire, Timothy Miller traces the birth and development of Byzantine xenones, or hospitals, from their emergence in the fourth century to their decline in the fifteenth century, just prior to the Turkish conquest of Constantinople. These sophisticated medical facilities, he concludes, are the true ancestors of modern hospitals. In a new introduction to this paperback edition, Miller describes the growing scholarship on this subject in recent years.

Author : Plinio Prioreschi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781888456042

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A History of Medicine: Byzantine and Islamic medicine by Plinio Prioreschi Pdf

Author : Timothy S. Miller,American Council of Learned Societies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 0835767442

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The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire by Timothy S. Miller,American Council of Learned Societies Pdf

Medical historians have traditionally claimed that modern hospitals emerged during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Premodern hospitals, according to many scholars, existed mainly as refuges for the desperately poor and sick, providing patients with little or no medical care. Challenging this view in a compelling survey of hospitals in the East Roman Empire, Timothy Miller traces the birth and development of Byzantine xenones, or hospitals, from their emergence in the fourth century to their decline in the fifteenth century, just prior to the Turkish conquest of Constantinople. These sophisticated medical facilities, he concludes, are the true ancestors of modern hospitals. In a new introduction to this paperback edition, Miller describes the growing scholarship on this subject in recent years.

Author : Peregrine Horden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000947687

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Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages by Peregrine Horden Pdf

The first part of this collection brings together a selection of Peregrine Horden's papers on the history of hospitals and related institutions of welfare provision from their origins in Late Antiquity to their medieval flourishing in Byzantium and the Islamic lands as well as in western Europe. The hospital is seen in a variety of original contexts, from demography and family history to the history of music and the liturgy. The second part turns to the history of healing and medicine, outside the hospital as well as within it. These studies cover a period from Hippocratic times to the Renaissance, but with a particular focus on the Mediterranean region - Byzantine, Middle Eastern and Western - in the Middle Ages.

Author : Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192591081

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Innovation in Byzantine Medicine by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos Pdf

Byzantine medicine remains a little known and misrepresented field not only in the context of debates on medieval medicine, but also among Byzantinists themselves. It is often viewed as 'stagnant' and mainly preserving ancient ideas, and our knowledge of it continues to be based to a great extent on the comments of earlier authorities, which are often repeated uncritically. This volume presents the first comprehensive examination of the medical corpus of, arguably, the most important Late Byzantine physician: John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275-c.1330). Its main thesis is that John's medical works show an astonishing degree of openness to knowledge from outside Byzantium combined with a significant degree of originality, in particular, in the fields of uroscopy and human physiology. The analysis of John's edited (On Urines and On Psychic Pneuma) and unedited (Medical Epitome) treatises is supported for the first time by the consultation of a large number of manuscripts, and is also informed by evidence from a wide range of medical sources, including those previously unpublished, and texts from other genres, such as epistolography and merchants' accounts. The contextualization of John's corpus sheds new light on the development of Byzantine medical thought and practice, and enhances our understanding of the Late Byzantine social and intellectual landscape. Through examination of his medical observations in the light of examples from the medieval Latin and Islamic worlds, his theories are also placed within the wider Mediterranean milieu, highlighting the cultural exchange between Byzantium and its neighbours.

Author : John Scarborough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Botany
ISBN : 0754659542

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Pharmacy and Drug Lore in Antiquity by John Scarborough Pdf

Professor Scarborough brings together here fourteen of his essays on ancient drugs and pharmacy, concerned with aspects of a pharmacology and medical botany that incorporate magic, astrology, and alchemy, as well as the expected theoretical constructs of elements, qualities, and humors. Particular studies deal with Hippocrates, toxicology as revealed in the work of Nicander of Colophon, and Roman medicine, while the collection concludes with two studies that explicate early Byzantine pharmacology and how garden lore in Byzantine times contributed to practical pharmacy.

Author : Lennart Lehmhaus,Matteo Martelli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501502552

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Collecting Recipes by Lennart Lehmhaus,Matteo Martelli Pdf

With a clear comparative approach, this volume brings together for the first time contributions that cover different periods of the history of ancient pharmacology, from Greek, Byzantine, and Syriac medicine to the Rabbinic-Talmudic medical discourses. This collection opens up new synchronic and diachronic perspectives in the study of the ancient traditions of recipe-books and medical collections. Besides the highly influential Galenic tradition, the contributions will focus on less studied Byzantine and Syriac sources as well as on the Talmudic tradition, which has never been systematically investigated in relation to medicine. This inquiry will highlight the overwhelming mass of information about drugs and remedies, which accumulated over the centuries and was disseminated in a variety of texts belonging to distinct cultural milieus. Through a close analysis of some relevant case studies, this volume will trace some paths of this transmission and transformation of pharmacological knowledge across cultural and linguistic boundaries, by pointing to the variety of disciplines and areas of expertise involved in the process.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004414617

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A Companion to Byzantine Science by Anonim Pdf

Science in Byzantium has rarely been systematically explored. A first of its kind, this collection of essays highlights the disciplines, achievements, and contexts of Byzantine science across the eleven centuries of the Byzantine empire. After an introduction on science in Byzantium and the 21st century, and a study of Christianization and the teaching of science in Byzantium, it offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the scientific disciplines cultivated in Byzantium, from the exact to the natural sciences, medicine, polemology, and the occult sciences. The volume showcases the diversity and vivacity of the varied scientific endeavours in the Byzantine world across its long history, and aims to bring the field into broader conversations within Byzantine studies, medieval studies, and history of science. Contributors are Fabio Acerbi, Anne-Laurence Caudano, Gonzalo Andreotti Cruz, Katerina Ierodiakonou, Herve Inglebert, Stavros Lazaris, Divna Manolova, Maria K. Papathanassiou, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Thomas Salmon, Ioannis Telelis, Anne Tihon, Alain Touwaide, Arnaud Zucker.

Author : Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198850687

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Innovation in Byzantine Medicine by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos Pdf

Byzantine medicine remains a little known and misrepresented field not only in the context of debates on medieval medicine, but also among Byzantinists themselves. It is often viewed as 'stagnant' and mainly preserving ancient ideas, and our knowledge of it continues to be based to a great extent on the comments of earlier authorities, which are often repeated uncritically. This volume presents the first comprehensive examination of the medical corpus of, arguably, the most important Late Byzantine physician: John Zacharias Aktouarios (c.1275-c.1330). Its main thesis is that John's medical works show an astonishing degree of openness to knowledge from outside Byzantium combined with a significant degree of originality, in particular, in the fields of uroscopy and human physiology. The analysis of John's edited (On Urines and On Psychic Pneuma) and unedited (Medical Epitome) treatises is supported for the first time by the consultation of a large number of manuscripts, and is also informed by evidence from a wide range of medical sources, including those previously unpublished, and texts from other genres, such as epistolography and merchants' accounts. The contextualization of John's corpus sheds new light on the development of Byzantine medical thought and practice, and enhances our understanding of the Late Byzantine social and intellectual landscape. Through examination of his medical observations in the light of examples from the medieval Latin and Islamic worlds, his theories are also placed within the wider Mediterranean milieu, highlighting the cultural exchange between Byzantium and its neighbours.

Author : Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472507181

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ReOrienting Histories of Medicine by Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Pdf

It is rarely appreciated how much of the history of Eurasian medicine in the premodern period hinges on cross-cultural interactions and knowledge transmissions. Using manuscripts found in key Eurasian nodes of the medieval world – Dunhuang, Kucha, the Cairo Genizah and Tabriz – the book analyses a number of case-studies of Eurasian medical encounters, giving a voice to places, languages, people and narratives which were once prominent but have gone silent. This is an important book for those interested in the history of medicine and the transmissions of knowledge that have taken place over the course of global history.

Author : Petros Bouras-Vallianatos,Dionysios Stathakopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781009389754

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Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos,Dionysios Stathakopoulos Pdf

Adopts a pan-Mediterranean approach to the study of medieval medicine and pharmacology, which permits a deeper understanding of broader phenomena such as the transfer of scientific knowledge and cultural exchange. Of great importance to medical historians, medieval historians and scholars of Byzantine, Islamicate, Jewish, and Latin traditions.

Author : Erin Connelly,Stefanie Künzel
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784918842

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New Approaches to Disease, Disability and Medicine in Medieval Europe by Erin Connelly,Stefanie Künzel Pdf

An interdisciplinary collection of papers focussing on infections, chronic illness, and the impact of infectious diseases on medieval society, with contributions by academics from a variety of disciplines and a diverse range of international institutions.

Author : Peregrine Horden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429657320

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Cultures of Healing by Peregrine Horden Pdf

This volume brings together for the first time an updated collection of articles exploring poverty, poor relief, illness, and health care as they intersected in Western Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East, during a ‘long’ Middle Ages. It offers a thorough and wide-ranging investigation into the institution of the hospital and the development of medicine and charity, with focuses on the history of music therapy and the history of ideas and perceptions fundamental to psychoanalysis. The collection is both sequel and complement to Horden’s earlier volume of collected studies, Hospitals and Healing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages (2008). It will be welcomed by all those interested in the premodern history of healing and welfare for its breadth of scope and scholarly depth.

Author : Petros Bouras-Vallianatos,Barbara Zipser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004394353

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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos,Barbara Zipser Pdf

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the field, it shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticised across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe to North Africa, the Middle and the Far East. The volume offers both introductory material and new analysis on the transmission and dissemination of Galen’s works and ideas through translations into Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages, the impact of Galenic thought on medical practice, as well as his influence in non-medical contexts, including philosophy and alchemy.