The authors provide a new insight to the practice of medical care in the medieval world. They examine the medicinal prescriptions and references to materia medica of the Cairo Genizah by combining the approaches of ethnobotany and history of medicine.

Efraim Lev, B.A, Ms.C., Ph.D. (1999), is a senior lecturer at the Dept. of Eretz Israel Studies and School of Public Health at the University of Haifa, Israel. He has published extensively on ethnopharmacology and history of medicine and pharmacology in the Levant.
Zohar Amar, B.A, M.A., Ph.D. (1996) is a senior lecturer at the Dept. of Land of Israel and Archaeology at Bar Ilan University. He has published extensively on the history of nature in Israel, Ancient medicine and realia in the Levant according to Jewish and Muslim sources.