Introduction -- Practical materia medica and its sources -- The identification of materia medica in the Genizah and method of presenting the data -- Prescriptions, lists, letters and their analysis -- Inventory of practical materia medica of the Genizah people, its analysis, and comparisons with the theoretical inventory -- Materia medica: detailed items -- Materia medica: concise items -- Epilogue
Summary
Provides fresh insight to the practice of medical care in the medieval world. The authors examine the medicinal prescriptions and references to materia medica of the Cairo Genizah by combining the approaches of ethnobotany and history of medicine
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-598) and indexes
