Le ricette cosmetiche nelle enciclopedie mediche tardoantiche

Buzzi, Serena; Calà, Irene; Lehmhaus, Lennart; Martelli, Matteo

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“…65 In fact, a recent study brought new attention on the importance of cosmetics in the medical practice. 66 A contrast between κοσμητική and κομμοτική is already present in Galen: the former, dealing with the effort to preserve the natural beauty of the body, is seen in a positive way and included within the medical sphere; the latter represents the negative practice of altering and transforming the body in an artificial, despicable way. Therefore, cosmetics is part of medicine in that it is meant to care for beauty according to nature.…”

Section: Gemma Stortimentioning

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Metrodora�s Work on the Diseases of Women and their Cures

2018

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The Florence Manuscript, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Laur. Plut. 75.3, has preserved a collection of medical remedies traditionally attributed to an otherwise unknown female author called Metrodora. In this article, I reinforce the argument that probably only the first part of this text was an original composition, whereas parts two and three are excerpts from other medical authors. Moreover, I propose that Metrodora's text must be read according to three different perspectives: the production of Byzantine medical collections (syllogai), the Byzantine hospitals, and the role of women in the medical field in the late antique and Byzantine periods. key-words: Metrodora, Syllogai, Byzantine hospital, Xenones, Female medicine, Cleopatra, Uterus, Alexander of Tralles, Aetius of Amida resumen El manuscrito de Florencia, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Laur. Plut. 75.3, conserva una colección de remedios médicos atribuida tradicionalmente a una escritora, por lo demás desconocida, llamada Metrodora. En este artículo, refuerzo el argumento de que probablemente sólo la primera parte del texto era una composición original, mientras que las partes dos y tres son excerpta de otros autores de medicina. Por otra parte, propongo que el texto de Metrodora se lea de acuerdo con tres perspectivas diferentes: la producción de colecciones bizantinas o syllogai médicas, los hospitales bizantinos y el papel de las mujeres en el ámbito de la medicina tardoantigua y bizantina.

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Section: Gemma Stortimentioning

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Metrodora�s Work on the Diseases of Women and their Cures

2018

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“…Even the late antique medical tradition, from Oribasius, the physician of the Emperor Julianus, to Aetius Amidenus, included what we would call cosmetic recipes in the Libri medicinales , thus confirming a very fluid borderline between aesthetic treatment and therapy. 6 , 7 …”

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Once again on the Empress Zoe: Women, dermatology, cosmetics, and materia medica (medical matter) in the ancient world

Cilione

Cavarra

Gazzaniga

2022

J of Cosmetic Dermatology

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Background: An article published in 2012 in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology discussed the historical sources presenting the Byzantine Empress Zoe Porphyrogenita as an expert in cosmetic and pharmacological remedies that could give their users a youthful appearance and a kind of eternal youth. However, it did not take into account a dermatological recipe attributed to Zoe which text transmission has preserved. Aims:To examine some ingredients of Zoe's recipe from a historical medical point of view and contextualize the text in the tradition of ancient medical matter, physiology of aging, and gender pharmacological skills.Methods: After contextualizing the recipe from the historical medical point of view, some of its ingredients have been analyzed in relation not only to their use in the most authoritative pharmacological and medical sources of antiquity but also to their symbolic meaning. Results:The analysis of Zoe's dermatological recipe allowed to highlight:1. The links between cosmetics and medicine in Greek and Roman Antiquity.2. The reason why ancient sources dealing with medical matter attributed to certain substances and plants the power to save the human body from old age and decay.3. The consistency between the ingredients of Zoe's recipe and the humoral physiology by genders and by age of Hippocrates.4. The existence of a female tradition in pharmacological competence. Conclusion:Cosmetic dermatology of antiquity is the perfect point in which survival of the myth and rational pharmacology overlap.

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Sui diversi usi dell’acqua nelle enciclopedie mediche della Tarda Antichità: Da Oribasio di Pergamo a Paolo Egineta

Calà¹

2020

Antiquité Tardive

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Le ricette cosmetiche nelle enciclopedie mediche tardoantiche

Cited by 7 publications

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Metrodora�s Work on the Diseases of Women and their Cures

Metrodora�s Work on the Diseases of Women and their Cures

Once again on the Empress Zoe: Women, dermatology, cosmetics, and materia medica (medical matter) in the ancient world

Sui diversi usi dell’acqua nelle enciclopedie mediche della Tarda Antichità: Da Oribasio di Pergamo a Paolo Egineta

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