Medicine and Pharmacy in Byzantine Hospitals: A study of the extant formularies

By David Bennett

Scholars have made conflicting claims for Byzantine hospitals as medical institutions and as the forebears of the modern hospital. In this study is the first systematic examination of the evidence of the xen n texts, or Xenonika, on which all such claims must in part rest. These texts, compiled broadly between the ninth and thirteenth centuries,

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367879085
• ISBN13: 9780367879082
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"