Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals by David Bennett

Author:David Bennett [Bennett, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367879082
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-12-12T00:00:00+00:00

Selected remedies

The codex Parisinus graecus 2194 is an early fifteenth-century manuscript. 14 Scanty syntactical evidence suggests the Xenonika texts originated no earlier than the eleventh century. 15 Prosopography gives no aid in identifying the few originators of eponymous remedies. Whatever the doubts about the validity of the title of each text, their contents hold much of intrinsic interest by way of glimpses of clinical prescribing attributed to individuals, almost certainly physicians, who may, pace the respective text titles, have been xenôn medical staff.

If that were so, what were the xenônes for which the lists were written? Or were the texts simply a private record, for personal reference, of useful remedies employed at xenônes? Certainly, the random order of the remedies in Xenonika I might suggest that.

The first detectable sources are to be found in the three didactic paragraphs 7–9: 16

§ 7 Signs in acute fevers indicative of whether or not they will be fatal.

§ 8 About diagnosis based on symptoms.

§ 9 What is diagnosis by inference?

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