How Long to Read Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece

How Long Does it Take to Read Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 10 minutes to read Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece by Steven M. Oberhelman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book is a study of three iatrosofia (the notebooks of traditional healers) from the Ottoman and modern periods of Greece. The main text is a collection of the medical recipes of the monk Gymnasios Lauriōtis (b. 1858). Gymnasios had a working knowledge of over 2,000 plants and their use in medical treatments. Two earlier iatrosofia are used for parallels for Gymnasios’s recipes. One was written c. 1800 by a practical doctor near Khania, Crete, and illustrated by a second hand. The second iatrosofion dates to the sixteenth century; ascribed to a Meletios, the text survives in the Codex Vindobonensis gr. med. 53. The contents of these and other iatrosofia are predominantly medical, with many of the remedies taken from folk medicine, classical and Hellenistic pharmacological writers, and Galen. The book opens with a biography of the monk Gymnasios and his recipes and then a description of the Cretan and Meletios iatrosofia. The iatrosophia, their role in Greek medical history, and the methods of healing are the subject of chapter 2. The Greek text of Gymnasios’s recipes are accompanied by a facing English translation. A commentary offers for each of Gymnasios’s recipes passages (translated into English) from the two other iatrosophia to serve as parallels, as well as an analysis of the pharmacopoeia in the medical texts. The book concludes with Greek and English indices of the material medica (plants, mineral, and animal substances) and the diseases, and then a general index.

How long is Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece?

Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece by Steven M. Oberhelman is 477 pages long, and a total of 122,589 words.

This makes it 161% the length of the average book. It also has 150% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 9 minutes to read Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece aloud.

What Reading Level is Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece?

Healing Manuals from Ottoman and Modern Greece is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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