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Alain Touwaide will be a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), for the winter term 2017. He will teach a class of history of medicine entitled "Medicines, Venoms, and Poisons from Antiquity to the Renaissance". A trans-disciplinary class, open to students across campus, from all backgrounds.
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Alain Touwaide, A Census of Greek Medical Manuscripts. From Byzantium to the Renaissance (Medicine in the Medieval Mediterranean 6). London and New York: Routledge, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-4094-0656-3.
From the Foreword by Mgr Paul Canart, Scriptor Emeritus, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
"I have regularly consulted the well-known catalogue compiled by Herman Diels and his collaborators ... as Alain Touwaide appropriately reminds us in the Introduction to the present work, its shortcomings and its mistakes have long made it desirable to have, if not a completely revised edition of Diels' catalogue, at least a list of the many corrections and complements made possible thanks to the scholarly research over the past 60 years. The author of the present Census provides such a list.
... Touwaide's Census richly increases the number of Greek codices with medical contents currently known ...
... we can only acknowledge the magnitude and the accuracy of Alain Touwaide's achievement, congratulate him for his contribution to scholarship and thank him for such a magnum opus."
Alain Touwaide, A Census of Greek Medical Manuscripts. London: Routledge, 2016.
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A facsimile replica of a large-size illustrated album dating back to ca. 1440 with representations of plants and other natural products used as medicines has just been published. This limited edition (987 copies) is accompanied by a thorough study by Alain Touwaide, Scientific Director of the Institute.
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I ricercatori dell’Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions in collaborazione con il Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics della Smithsonian Institution potrebbero essere sul punto di svelare il mistero che avvolge medicine romane preparate oltre 2000 anni fa.
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Scholars of the Institute for Preservation of Medical Traditions in collaboration with the Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics of the Smithsonian Institution unlock the mystery of 2000-year-old Roman pills.
