Selling Pharmaka, Buying Health in Ancient Greece and Rome
Selling Pharmaka, Buying Health in Ancient Greece and Rome
Retail Therapy
Totelin, Laurence
Taylor & Francis Ltd
04/2026
256
Dura
Inglês
9781138216082
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Introduction; 1. Pharmacological actors in the marketplace; 2. Procuring and storing simple drugs; 3. Compound remedies: Written recipes and their transmission; 4. Stamping, branding, and advertising ancient remedies; 5. Stretching out the pepper: drug adulteration and adulteration by means of drugs in antiquity; 6. 'Hard' and 'soft' pharmacological consumers in the Graeco-Roman world; 7. The hands of the gods: Pharmaka and divine powers; Conclusions.
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ancient pharmacology;medical marketplace;Graeco-Roman medicine;drug adulteration;ancient medical trade;historical therapeutics;ancient pharmaceutical commerce
Introduction; 1. Pharmacological actors in the marketplace; 2. Procuring and storing simple drugs; 3. Compound remedies: Written recipes and their transmission; 4. Stamping, branding, and advertising ancient remedies; 5. Stretching out the pepper: drug adulteration and adulteration by means of drugs in antiquity; 6. 'Hard' and 'soft' pharmacological consumers in the Graeco-Roman world; 7. The hands of the gods: Pharmaka and divine powers; Conclusions.