“In conformity with xenôn practice”: the Therapeutikai

This aphorism bears recall when, in the age of modern medicine, xenôn remedy texts still repay study. The θεραπευτικαὶ ἰατρεῖαι ( Therapeutikai iatreiai , Medicinales curae , Medical treatments ), identifi ed as Therapeutikai in an abbreviated form in this study, may be the earliest extant xenôn remedy text. Its title reads:

Θεραπευτικαὶ ἰατρεῖαι συντεθεῖσαι παρὰ διαφόρων ἰατρῶν κατὰ τὴν ἐκτεθεῖσαν ἀκολουθίαν τοῦ ξενῶνος.