TY - BOOK AU - Maire,Brigitte TI - 'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin Medical Texts: Studies in Cultural Change and Exchange in Ancient Medicine T2 - Studies in Ancient Medicine Series SN - 9789004273863 AV - R138.G744 2014eb U1 - 610.938 PY - 2014/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Medicine, Greek and Roman KW - Medicine, Egyptian KW - Medical care-Egypt-History KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Physician -- Chapter 1 Greek and Roman Patients under Galen's Gaze: A Doctor at the Crossroads of Two Cultures -- Chapter 2 "Memorial" Strategies of Court Physicians in the Imperial Period -- Chapter 3 The Identity, Legal Status and Origin of the Roman Army's Medical Staff in the Imperial Age -- Part 2 Medical Practice and Theory -- Chapter 4 Pneumatism in Seneca: An Example of Interaction between Physics and Medicine -- Chapter 5 References to Medical Authors in Non-Medical Latin Literature -- Chapter 6 At the Crossroads of Greek and Roman Medicine: The Contribution of Latin Papyri 1. Medical Texts -- 2. Iatromagical Papyri -- Part 3 Anatomy and Pathology -- Chapter 7 Calcidius, Witness to Greek Medical Theories: Eye Anatomy and Pathology -- Chapter 8 Physical Pain in Celsus' On Medicine -- Part 4 Pharmacology and Magic -- Chapter 9 The Pharmacological Treatise Περὶ εὐφορβίου of Juba II, King of Mauretania -- Chapter 10 "As a Matter of Fact, This is Not Difficult to Understand!": The Addresses to the Reader in Greek and Latin Pharmacological Poetry -- Chapter 11 Magical Formulas in Pliny's Natural History: Origins, Sources, Parallels -- Chapter 12 On Analgesic and Narcotic Plants: Pliny and His Greek Sources, the History of a Complex Graft -- Chapter 13 Collyrium Names Attested on Stone Tablets: The Example of the Helvetian Corpus -- Part 5 Language and Establishment of the Text -- Chapter 14 The Meaning and Etymology of the Adjective Apiosus -- Chapter 15 The Latin and Greek Tradition of the Corpus Oribasianum -- Chapter 16 Galen of Pergamum: A Witness of Scribonius Largus' OEuvre -- Chapter 17 Greek Medicine in Scribonius Largus' Compositiones -- Chapter 18 The Ancient Latin Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms on the Threshold of the Twelfth Century; Chapter 19 On Terminological Variation in the Late Latin Translation of the Hippocratic Aphorisms -- Chapter 20 From Cassius Felix to Tereoperica: New Considerations on Indirect Tradition -- Chapter 21 The Author of Book 10 of the Mulomedicina Chironis and Its Greek and Latin Sources -- Index Locorum -- Inscriptions -- Papyri and Ostraca -- Manuscripts -- General Index N2 - Latin medical texts transmit medical theories and practices that originated mainly in Greece. 'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin Medical Texts studies the ways in which this cultural interaction led to innovations in the areas of anatomy, pathology and pharmacology, from the earliest Latin medical texts until well into the medieval world UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1744668 ER -