Medical Science of Milk Included in Celsus' Treatise De Medicina
Studia Ceranea 6, 2016, p. 323–353 ISSN: 2084-140X DOI: 10.18778/2084-140X.06.17 e-ISSN: 2449-8378 Maciej Kokoszko (Łódź) Jolanta Dybała (Piotrków Trybunalski) Medical Science of Milk Included in Celsus’ Treatise De medicina ilk has always been a very significant food product in the Mediterranean1 M(but also in other regions of the ancient world2). Thus, it comes as no sur- prise that ancient and Byzantine physicians devoted their research to this subject3. It is commonly believed that fresh milk was quite rare in everyday diet of those times, whereas its derivative – namely cheese – was consumed much more fre- quently. This general production-consumption pattern survived the Antiquity and was equally characteristic of the early Middle Ages4. 1 For the areas initially untouched by the Greek culture, and later by the Roman culture, cf. E. Bres- ciani, Nourritures et boissons de l’Égypte ancienne, [in:] Histoire de l’alimentation, ed. J.-L. Flan- drin, M. Montanari, Paris 1996, p. 63, 65, 67; J. Soler, Les raisons de la Bible: règles alimentaires hébraïques, [in:] Histoire…, p. 73–74, 79; A. Spanò Giammellaro, Les Phéniciens et les Carthaginois, [in:] Histoire…, p. 91, 96 etc. For the Greco-Roman area of the Mediterranean basin, cf. M.-C. Amo- uretti, Villes et campagnes grecques, [in:] Histoire…, p. 138, 143; J.P. Alcock, Milk and its Products in Ancient Rome, [in:] Milk. Beyond the Dairy. Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1999, ed. H. Walker, Totnes 2000, p. 31–38; C.A. Déry, Milk and Dairy Products in the Ro- man Period, [in:] Milk…, p.
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