Patricia A. Clark
Ashgate
Hardback
250

This is an edition commentary and English translation of a medical notebook belonging to a traditional healer from the village of Meronas in central Crete. It belongs to the genre of Iatrosophia: practical manuals of collected healing wisdom which contain admixtures of agricultural and meteorological lore as well as elements of religious astrological and magical beliefs and traditions. At its core lies material from much earlier classical and Byzantine medical texts.