When No Doctor is on Call. Medical Works for Lay Persons in Late Antiquity
Authors
Klaus Dietrich Fischer
Institute for History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine at the University Medical Center of the Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, D
Keywords:
Late antiquity, Medical manuals for laymen
Abstract
The article offers a survey of the chief medical texts for lay persons in Latin, followed by a more detailed discussion of two examples, hare’s brain for teething troubles and remedies for nosebleed.
