Affiliation:
1. University of Łódź, Ceraneum Centre
2. University of Łódź, Department of Roman Law
Abstract
The article discusses an unusual prescription for a sitz bath (ἐγκάθισμα) derived from Galen’s treatise De compositione medicamentorum per genera. The term ἐγκάθισμα is not used in any other known fragment of the writings of the famous Pergamonian. The prescription given in discussed passage differs from most of the known prescriptions for sitz baths preserved in other medical authors of antiquity, because it consists mainly of metals and their minerals.
Publisher
Led Edizioni Universitarie
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,History,Language and Linguistics,Classics
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