Publications by authors named "M H Marganne"

The paper presents the research on medicine in Greco-Roman Egypt conducted in the last forty years at the Centre de Documentation de Papyrologie Littéraire (CEDOPAL) at the University of Liège. It describes the main results obtained by deciphering, editing, translating and commenting Greek and Latin medical papyri, be they literary, documentary or magical.

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1. Far fewer Latin medical papyri, whether paraliterary, documentary or magical, have survived compared to Greek medical papyri, but they nonetheless provide interesting information about medical practices in the Graeco-Roman world, the relationship between Greek and Latin medical languages, and the choices made to use one rather than the other, a subject that has never been exhaustively studied. As part of the update undertaken by CEDOPAL since 2008 of the Corpus papyrorum Latinarum, published fifty years ago by the late Robert Cavenaile, we have inventoried Latin papyri containing medical references, classifying them by type or nature of content, provenance, form, layout, and writing.

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After describing the dossier of the medical works attributed to Cleopatra in the MD. Grmek fund deposited at IMEC (Institut Mémoires de l'Edition Contemporaine, Abbaye d'Ardenne, Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe, near Caen), this paper reports some recent papyrological discoveries (P. Oxy.

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We have analyzed the relationship between the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (type 2) and socio-economic status of patients. The cross-sectional study included 79,855 patients registered in Belgium capitation-fee primary health care centers. The adjusted prevalence for age and gender was 6.

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This paper provides the results of a survey about the 10 medical books described by Photius (9th century) in his Bibliotheca and tries to answer the following questions: where did Photios find these medical books, why did he choose them and how did he analyse them?

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