Ancient medical texts, modern reading problems
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Ancient medical texts, modern reading problems.
The word tradition has a very specific meaning in linguistics: the passing down of a text, which may have been completed or corrected by different copyists at different times, when the concept of authorship was not the same as it is today. When reading an ancient text the word tradition must be in the reader's mind. To discuss one of the problems an ancient text poses to its modern readers, thi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0074-0276
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762006001000022