Email this article Galen’s Recipe for Untypical Sitz Bath (ἐγκάθισμα)
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.
Keywords
Full Text:
PDFReferences
Fagan 2001
G.G. Fagan, The Genesis of the Roman Public Bath: Recent Approaches and Future Directions, AJA 105 (2001), 403-426.
https://doi.org/10.2307/507363
Fagan 2006
G.G. Fagan, Bathing for Health with Celsus and Pliny the Elder, CQ n.s. 56 (2006), 190-207.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838806000152
Gabriel 2012
R.A. Gabriel, Man and Wound in the Ancient World: A History of Military Medicine from Sumer to the Fall of Constantinople, Washington, D.C. 2012.
Garzya 2005
A. Garzya, Aetius v. Amida, in K.-H. Leven (hrsg.), Antike Medizin. Ein Lexikon, München 2005, 19-20.
Gianfaldoni et al. 2017
S. Gianfaldoni - G. Tchernev - U. Wollina - M.G. Roccia - M. Fioranelli - R. Gianfaldoni - T. Lotti, History of the Baths and Thermal Medicine, Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences 5.4 (2017), 566-568.
https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2017.126
Hankinson 2008
R.J. Hankinson, The Man and His Work, in R.J. Hankinson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Galen, Cambridge 2008, 1-33.
https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521819541.001
Heiberg 1921-1924
I.L. Heiberg (ed.), Paulus Aegineta, I-II, Lipsiae - Berolini 1921-1924.
Ilberg 1927
I. Ilberg (ed.), Sorani Gynaeciorum libri IV, De signis fractuarum, De fasciis, Vita Hippocratis secundum Soranum, Lipsiae - Berolini 1927.
Kaibel 1887-1890
G. Kaibel (ed.), Athenaei Naucratitae Deipnosophistarum libri XV, I-III, Lipsiae - Berolini 1887-1890.
Keyser - Irby-Massie 2008
P.T. Keyser - G.L. Irby-Massie (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek Tradition and Its Many Heirs, London - New York 2008.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203462737
Кирова 2010
Н. Кирова, Медицината в провинциите Долна Мизия и Тракия (I - края на III в.), София 2010.
Kokoszko - Jagusiak 2010
M. Kokoszko - K. Jagusiak, Woda, wino i tak dalej, czyli o napojach i trunkach w Konstantynopolu, Przegląd Nauk Historycznych 9 (2010), 25-54.
Kühn 1824
C.G. Kühn (ed.), Galeni de locis affectis libri VI, in Claudii Galeni opera omnia, VIII, Lipsiae 1824, 1-452.
Kühn 1826
C.G. Kühn (ed.), Galeni de simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis ac facultatibus libri XI, in Claudii Galeni opera omnia, XI, Lipsiae 1826, 379-892 e XII, Lipsiae 1826, 1-377.
Kühn 1826-1827
C.G. Kühn (ed.), Galeni de compositione medicamentorum secundum locos libri X, in Claudii Galeni opera omnia, XII, Lipsiae 1826, 378-1007 e XIII, Lipsiae 1827, 1-361.
Kühn 1827
C.G. Kühn (ed.), Galeni de compositione medicamentorum per genera libri VII, in Claudii Galeni opera omnia, XIII, Lipsiae 1827, 362-1058.
Kühn 1830
C.G. Kühn (ed.), Galeni de affectuum renibus insidentium dignotione et curatione, in Claudii Galeni opera omnia, XIX, Lipsiae 1830, 643-698.
Laskaris 2016
J. Laskaris, Metals in Medicine: From Telephus to Galen, in W.V. Harris (ed.), Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations, Leiden - Boston 2016, 149-160.
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004326040_007
Lehmann 1930
H. Lehmann, Zu Aëtius Amidenus, Sudhoffs Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Medizin 23 (1930), 205-206.
Marchewka - Świder 2014
A. Marchewka - M. Świder (edd.), Hippocrates, De aere, aquis et locis. Hippokrates, O powietrzu, wodach i miejscach, Poznan' 2014.
Nutton 2020
V. Nutton, Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome, London - New York 2020.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429341380
Olivieri 1935-1950
A. Olivieri (ed.), Aetii Amideni libri medicinales I-VIII, Lipsiae - Berolini 1935-1950.
Photos-Jones 2018
E. Photos-Jones, From Mine to Apothecary: An Archaeo-Biomedical Approach to the Study of the Greco-Roman Lithotherapeutics Industry, World Archaeology 50 (2018), 418-433.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1515034
Photos-Jones et al. 2018
E. Photos-Jones - C.W. Knapp - D. Venieri - G.E. Christidis - C. Elgy - E. Valsami-Jones - I. Gounaki - N.C. Andriopoulou, Greco-Roman Mineral (Litho)therapeutics and Their Relationship to Their Microbiome: The Case of the Red Pigmentmiltos, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 22 (2018), 179-192.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.07.017
Puschmann 1963
T. Puschmann (ed.), Alexandrii Tralliani therapeutica, I-II, Amsterdam 1963.
Raeder 1928-1933
I. Raeder (ed.), Oribasii collectionum medicarum reliquiae, I-IV, Lipsiae - Berolini 1928-1933.
Raeder 1933
I. Raeder (ed.), Oribasii collectionum medicarum reliquiae, IV, Libri XLIX-L, Libri incerti, Eclogae medicamentorum, Index, Lipsiae - Berolini 1933, 75-180.
Raeder 1964
I. Raeder (ed.), Oribasii synopsis ad Eustathium filium et libri ad Eunapium, VI.3, Leipzig 1964, 3-313.
Salazar - van der Eijk 2020
C. Salazar - P. van der Eijk, Aetius of Amida's Abbreviations of his Galenic Source Texts, in I. Boehm - D. Vallat (éds.), Epitome: abréger les textes antiques, Lyon 2020, 1-22.
https://doi.org/10.4000/books.momeditions.10612
Sarton 1954
G. Sarton, Galen of Pergamum, Lawrence 1954.
Scarborough 2013
J. Scarborough, Theodora, Aetius of Amida, and Procopius: Some Possible Connections, GRBS 53 (2013), 742-762.
Schulze 2003
C. Schulze, Die pharmazeutische Fachliteratur in der Antike Eine Einführung, Göttingen 2003.
Tsitsis et al. 2013
N. Tsitsis - G. Polkas - A. Daoutis - E. Prokopiou - L. Kourkouta, Hydrotherapy in Ancient Greece, Balkan Military Medical Review 16 (2013), 462-466.
Walton - Beeson - Bodley Scott 1986
J. Walton - P.B. Beeson - R. Bodley Scott (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Medicine, I, Oxford 1986.
Wellmann 1906-1914
M. Wellmann (ed.), Pedanii Dioscuridis Anazarbei de material medica libri V, I-III, Berolini 1906-1914.
Zytka 2019
M. Zytka, A Cultural History of Bathing in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium, New York 2019.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351134118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7358/erga-2023-001-jata
Copyright (©) 2023 Krzysztof Jagusiak, Konrad Tadajczyk – Editorial format and Graphical layout: copyright (©) LED Edizioni Universitarie
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Announcements
Erga/Logoi accepts books for review
The books are to be sent to the Executive Editor
Call for papers Vol. 13 (2025)
Authors have to read through the Information for Authors and the Author guidelines carefully before beginning the submission process.
Erga-Logoi. Rivista di storia, letteratura, diritto e culture dell'antichità
Registered by Tribunale di Milano (20/09/2012 n. 353)
Online ISSN 2282-3212 - Print ISSN 2280-9678
Executive Editor: Cinzia Bearzot
Editorial Staff: Paolo A. Tuci (Coordinator) - Marcello Bertoli - Livia De Martinis - Laura Loddo - Annabella Oranges - Alessandra Valentini
Editorial Board: Gaetano Arena - Ralf Behrwald - Margherita Cassia - Paolo Cesaretti - Bernard Eck - Michele Faraguna - Massimo Gioseffi - Dominique Lenfant - Lauretta Maganzani - Roberto Nicolai - Giovanni Parmeggiani - Marina Polito - Umberto Roberto - Francesca Rohr - Marco Sannazaro - Stefan Schorn - Paolo A. Tuci - Gianpaolo Urso - José Vela Tejada - Robert Wallace
Emeritus Editorial Board: Serena Bianchetti - Giovannella Cresci - Lia Raffaella Cresci - Ugo Fantasia - Franca Landucci - Rosalia Marino - Riccardo Vattuone
© 2001 LED Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto