Practical materia medica of the medieval eastern Mediterranean according to the Cairo Genizah / by Efraim Lev and Zohar Amar.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

x, 619 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [581]-598) and indexes.

Introduction -- Practical materia medica and its sources -- The identification of materia medica in the Genizah and method of presenting the data -- Prescriptions, lists, letters and their analysis -- Inventory of practical materia medica of the Genizah people, its analysis, and comparisons with the theoretical inventory -- Materia medica: detailed items -- Materia medica: concise items -- Epilogue.