Galen’s Recipe for Untypical Sitz Bath (ἐγκάθισμα)
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Krzysztof Jagusiak; Konrad Tadajczyk
- Source
- Erga-Logoi, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 139-149 (2023)
- Subject
- ancient medicine
byzantine medicine
galen
hydrotherapy
metals in medicine
sitz baths – bagni da seduti
galeno
idroterapia
medicina antica
medicina bizantina
metalli in medicina.
History of the Greco-Roman World
DE1-100
Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature
PA
History of Law
KJ2-1040
- Language
- German
English
Spanish; Castilian
French
Italian
- ISSN
- 2280-9678
2282-3212
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.