Event overview
Public Lecture by Petros-Bouras Vallianatos
This talk focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of disease in Byzantine hospitals (xenōnes). It uses evidence from the corpus of surviving Byzantine hospital recipe books (xenōnika), including all the edited and unedited examples.
It also considers important non-medical sources, such as charters of medical institutions, legal sources, epistolography, and archaeological evidence. In this venture, particular attention will be paid to the role of uroscopy whether in conjunction with the examination of the pulse or not, in the diagnosis and prognostication of disease.
In the field of therapeutics, importance will be given to drug therapy, whether allied with dietetics and surgery or not, the impact of Arabic versus classical pharmacology, the introduction of expensive exotic substances, and the development of existing and new composite drugs in response to epidemic diseases, such as the Black Death.
Finally, recipes for women’s diseases will be studied closely in an attempt to shed light on the level of the individualisation of the patient.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Feb 2021 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
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