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Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9004161201 (hbk.)
ISBN	9789004161207 (hbk.)
Author	Lev, Efraim
Title	Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah / by Ephraim Lev and Zohar Amar
Publisher	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008
Physical desc.	x, 619, [32] p. of plates ; col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Series	Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series 7
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (p. [581]-598) and indexes.
Contents	Introduction -- Practical materia medica and its sources -- The identification of materia medica in the Genizah and method of presenting the data -- Prescriptions, lists, letters and their analysis -- Inventory of practical materia medica of the Genizah people, its analysis, and comparisons with the theoretical inventory -- Materia medica: detailed items -- Materia medica: concise items -- Epilogue.
Subject	Cairo Genizah
	Materia medica -- Middle East -- History
	Medicine, Medieval -- Middle East -- History
	Jews -- Medicine -- Middle East -- History
	Manuscripts, Hebrew -- Egypt -- Cairo
Added name(s)	Amar, Zohar

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10009716	615.10956 LEV	BS		. Available .