A Cretan healer's handbook in the Byzantine tradition
An edition of A Cretan healer's handbook in the Byzantine tradition (2011)
Text, Translation and Commentary
By Patricia Ann Clark
Publish Date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Language
eng
Pages
320
Description:
"In 1930 the Cretan healer Nikolaos Konstantinos Theodorakis of Meronas re-copied a notebook containing medical lore passed down through his family over generations. The present volume offers an edition of this notebook together with an English translation, the first of its kind. It belongs to the genre of iatrosophia, practical handbooks dating mainly to the 17th to 19th centuries which compiled healing wisdom, along with snippets of agricultural, meteorological and veterinary advice, and admixtures of religion, astrology and magic"--Pub. website.