John the Physician's Therapeutics: A Medical Handbook in Vernacular Greek (37) (Studies in Ancient Medicine, 37)

The Therapeutics of John the Physician is a medical handbook from the thirteenth century, holding important new evidence on medicine as craft. Of particular interest is a vernacular version of the text, which also contains a commentary. Here, an unknown reviser vividly describes cases and medical procedures, a type of knowledge rarely encountered in scholarly texts. In the present volume, the Therapeutics is published for the first time, along with a translation and an introduction to the topic. Apart from insights into medical history, the text also yields a large quantity of new material on the medical terminology used in everyday language and brings to life the development from ancient to modern Greek. The editorial technique may be of interest to those working on digital humanities. Table of Contents 8 List of Illustrations 9 Acknowledgements 10 Part one: Introduction 12 I. An unusual topic 14 II. The text 17 III. Other texts 19 IV. The manuscript tradition 24 1. The original version 25 2. The later version and its descendants 26 2.1. The later version 26 2.2. Augmented excerpts 33 2.3. A classicizing version 35 2.4. Excerpts 37 V. Editorial methods 39 1. The original version 39 2. The later version 39 VI. Language, place and date 44 VII. Medical practice 49 Part two: Edition and translation of ... 60 Part three: Edition of ... 182 Appendix 341 Bibliography 366 Index 370 9789004177239 The ""Therapeutics"" of John the Physician is an important source on Medieval medicine, published here for the first time. It yields authentic insights into medicine as a craft and a large quantity of new evidence on the transition from ancient to modern Greek