ABSTRACT
Theodore and Kekaumenos were clearly not assured in their respective lifetimes about the skills and fees of physicians, or even the effi cacy of their medicines, but we have no authenticated knowledge that might substantiate their grievances. Did their remedies leave an unpleasant taste, empty purses, and no alleviation of ills? Would new ingredients from far countries make better medicines? Two texts from a later age in a fi fteenth-century manuscript are the subject of this chapter; one of them introduces ingredients of Eastern origin.
