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GREEK MANUSCRIPT - MEDICAL Manuscript of medical prescriptions and remedies, ascribed to Eustratius Argenti, [c.1700-1750]
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GREEK MANUSCRIPT - MEDICAL
Footnotes
"This Manuscript of medical prescriptions belonged to Eustratius Argenti, the Doctor and Theologian (1687-1755), and is probably in his own hand. It was found amongst the debris of the Pyrgos in the Campos, Chios, where the Theologian lived, and which belonged to his great great grandson, namely, the late Eustratius John of Argenti of Alexandria, from whose family it was acquired by me..." (Philip Pandeley Argenti). The manuscript "is divided into two parts closely similar in character, the first entitled 'A Doctor's Manual' (Iatrosophion) and the second 'A Book of Remedies' (Antidotarion)... the Iatrosophion opens with sections on the four elements, extracted from Hippocrates and Galen... The rest of the Iatrosophion, and the whole of the Antidotarion, contain brief remedies of the traditional 'folk-medicine' type current in Greece at the time" (Kallistos Ware, Eustratios Argenti: A Study of the Greek Church under Turkish Rule, see pp.45-47). Family tradition ascribes the authorship of the work to Argenti, but Ware notes that there is no author or compiler given, and that the second part is "said to be a translation from the Italian" by one Nicholas Hieropais.
Provenance: Philip Pandely Argenti (1891-1974, diplomat and historian of Chios), bookplate and printed note [see above] dated 1932; gifted to his godson, the present owner.





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