'Collars for the insane' from Asia Minor on the margins of the history of medicine and the history of museums
Abstract
Thirteen silver collars with long chains, now in the Byzantine and Christian Museum, and the Benaki Museum, Athens are discussed is this paper. Dating from between 1836 and 1907, these objects came from Christian communities in Asia Minor. They were worn during incubation and testify to the late survival of popular pre-scientific medicine. Their primary therapeutic functions as well as their misinterpretation during their early museum history are investigated.
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ΓΚΡΑΤΖΙΟΥ Ό. (2011). ’Collars for the insane’ from Asia Minor on the margins of the history of medicine and the history of museums. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 26, 389–400. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.458
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