Milk and Dairy Products in the Medicine and Culinary Art of Antiquity and Early Byzantium (1st–7th Centuries AD)

• Druk: Łódź, 2020
• Seria / cykl: BYZANTINA LODZIENSIA
• Autor: Maciej Kokoszko, Zofia Rzeźnicka
• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

The following publication constitutes a continuation of a longstanding research conducted by both authors on nourishment, dietetics, pharmacology and gastronomy in the Late Antiquity and early Byzantium. The book was created based primarily on Greek medical treatises composed from the 1st to 7th century, but it takes into account data that originates outside of this collection.
The goal of the authors was to present the knowledge of the people in antiquity and Byzantium on milk and dairy products. To achieve that they attempted to translate into contemporary language the way of thinking of then doctors, and to present main points of the theory propagated by them. In particular, the authors have shown ways of utilizing aforementioned alimentary products as food and medicine. Thus, they consciously encroach the area of history of pharmacology and gastronomy. Even though the nature of their research led the authors to focus on conclusions in the field of the history of food and medicine, they also take up the issues related to society and economy of this period.
The dissertation [...] is undoubtedly an important contribution to the research on the history of medicine and nutrition in the classical and the early Byzantine period. The remarks on termi¬nology are essential, and they often influence the understanding and interpretation of other literary sources. The dissertation is of high scientific value and brings forward many relevant information: specific examples on how milk and diary were used, both in everyday nutrition, and in medical practice.
prof. Anna Kotłowska
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

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• Język wydania: angielski
• ISBN: 978-83-8142-648-0
• ISBN druku: 978-83-8142-647-3
• Liczba stron: 238

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Introduction (Zofia Rzeźnicka, Maciej Kokoszko)	1
1. Some comments on the book and its structure	1
2. Humoral theory – an outline	6

A Few Words on Milk and Dairy Products (Zofia Rzeźnicka, Maciej Kokoszko)	11

Chapter I. The Pre-Galenic Science of Milk and Dairy Products – Celsus and Dioscorides: Selected Aspects (Maciej Kokoszko)	17
1. An introduction to the theory on milk and dairy products	17
2. Theory on milk and dairy products in the encyclopaedia De medicina by Aulus Cornelius Celsus 	19
3. Theory on milk and dairy products in De materia medica by Dioscorides 	41
4. Conclusions	53

Chapter II. Milk and the Dietetics, Pharmacology, Therapeutic Procedures and Culinary Art: Galen and his Followers (Zofia Rzeźnicka, Maciej Kokoszko)	55
1. Galen and later medical authors on the dietetic properties of milk (Zofia Rzeźnicka, Maciej Kokoszko)	55
2. Galen and later medical authors on the pharmacological properties of milk and its applications in therapeutics (Zofia Rzeźnicka)	64
3. Milk in cuisine (Zofia Rzeźnicka, Maciej Kokoszko)	76

Chapter III. Oksýgala in Dietetics, Medical Procedures, and Culinary Art: Galen and his Followers (Zofia Rzeźnicka)	85

Chapter IV. Cheese in Dietetics, Pharmacology, Therapeutic Procedures and Culinary Art: Galen and his Followers (Zofia Rzeźnicka, Maciej Kokoszko)	93
1. Galen and later medical autohors on the dietetic properties of cheese (Zofia Rzeźnicka)	93
2. Galen and later medical autohors on the pharmacological properties of cheese and its applications in therapeutics (Zofia Rzeźnicka)	100
3. Cheese in cuisine (Zofia Rzeźnicka, Maciej Kokoszko)	104

Chapter V. Butter in Dietetics, Pharmacology, Therapeutic Procedures and Culinary Art: Galen and his Followers (Zofia Rzeźnicka)	129
1. Galen and later medical autohors on butter in dietetics, pharmacology and therapeutics	129
2. Butter in cuisine	137

Chapter VI. Appendix, or on a Clear Understanding (Maciej Kokoszko, Zofia Rzeźnicka)	141
1. Pyríephtha – an enigmatic term 	141
2. Trying to fully understand Galen	147
3. Consequences 	151

Final Conclusions (Zofia Rzeźnicka)	153

A Glossary of Basic Greek Terminology (Zofia Rzeźnicka)	161

List of Abbreviations	167

Bibliography	171
Source texts	171
General bibliography	181

Indices  	215
Index of people	215
Index of geographical and ethnical names	219

Abstract	221