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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, an…
This volume looks into the practice of medical care in the medieval world, particularly amongst the Jewish communities of Egypt. It examines the medicinal perscriptions, lists of materia medica and letters between physicians, pharmacists and patients found in the Cairo Genizah.
