Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction, Alain Touwaide; Pharmacology and toxicology at the court of Cleopatra VII: traces of three physicians, John Scarborough; Quid pro quo: revisiting the practice of substitution in ancient pharmacy, Alain Touwaide; Speaking in tongues: medical wisdom and glossing practices in and around Salerno, c.1040-1200, Florence Eliza Glaze; The ghost in the Articella: a 12th-century commentary on the Constantinian Liber Graduum, Faith Wallis; 'I will add what the Arab once taught': Constantine the African in Northern European medical verse, Winston Black; A problematic plant name: elehtre. A reconsideration, Maria Amalia D'Aronco; Herbs and herbal healing satirized in Middle English texts, Linda Ehrsam Voigts; 'Kurze versuochte dinge.' Ein mährisch-schlesisches wundärztliches Rezeptar des 15. Jahrhunderts. Gundolf Keil; Saint John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum L.) in the age of Paracelsus and the great herbals: assessing the historical claims for a traditional remedy, Karen Reeds; Revisiting Eve's herbs: reflections on therapeutic uncertainties, John K. Crellin; Modding medievalists: designing a web-based portal for the Medieval Plant Survey/ Portal der Pflanzen des Mittelalters (MPS/PPM), Helmut W. Klug and Roman Weinberger; The publications of John M. Riddle, 1964-2010, compiled by Anne Van Arsdall and Timothy Graham; Indexes.