Barbara Zipser
Ashgate
Hardback
400
The therapeutic manual of John the physician is a practical manual made for an ordinary physician in the Byzantine countryside. Judging from the number of transmitted copies the text must have been extremely popular and from its composition around the 13th century to the earliest manuscripts in the 14th and 15th century it was revised and augmented several times and gives us invaluable insight into the practice of medicine as a craft. This publication includes a first edition and translation of the text an outline of its transmission and introductory essays setting out the context.
Ashgate
Hardback
400
The therapeutic manual of John the physician is a practical manual made for an ordinary physician in the Byzantine countryside. Judging from the number of transmitted copies the text must have been extremely popular and from its composition around the 13th century to the earliest manuscripts in the 14th and 15th century it was revised and augmented several times and gives us invaluable insight into the practice of medicine as a craft. This publication includes a first edition and translation of the text an outline of its transmission and introductory essays setting out the context.