P. Michigan XVII. The Michigan Medical Codex (P.Mich. 758 = P.Mich. inv. 21). - YOUTIE, L.C.,

KORTE INHOUD

?This collection of medical papyri, with a clipped and clear introduction by Ann Hanson (pp.XV-XXV), represents the finest of both medical history and papyrology: the texts are not ?edited?, nor (except in rare instances) do they have comments by later readers; they are the stuff of landfills (in this case in Egypt, to about A.D. 600), fragments of tracts probably recopied by a wary scribe fro an ever-impatient physician of midwife who needed the recipes for actual practice. This generally overlooked aspect of classical studies has received some notice, thanks to the presumed Library of Philodemus at Herculaneum. (?) Louise Yountie?s ?Michigan Papyri XVII? deserves a place in any medical library that has a pretence to holdings in the history of medicine, for it is essential to anyone working through the puzzles and mysteries of Greco-Roman drug lists. (?) The appearance of similar formulae in multiple papyri suggest several essential characteristics of drug lore and pharmacy among the Greeks and Romans (?). B...
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1996Uitgever: Scholars Press