Author: William RAMESEYPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Θανασιμα, και Δηλητηρια. Tractatus de Venenis. Or, a Treatise of Poysons. Their sundry sorts, names, natures and virtues, etc
Author: William RAMESEYPoison, Medicine, and Disease in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author: Frederick W GibbsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317079329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
This book presents a uniquely broad and pioneering history of premodern toxicology by exploring how late medieval and early modern (c. 1200–1600) physicians discussed the relationship between poison, medicine, and disease. Drawing from a wide range of medical and natural philosophical texts—with an emphasis on treatises that focused on poison, pharmacotherapeutics, plague, and the nature of disease—this study brings to light premodern physicians' debates about the potential existence, nature, and properties of a category of substance theoretically harmful to the human body in even the smallest amount. Focusing on the category of poison (venenum) rather than on specific drugs reframes and remixes the standard histories of toxicology, pharmacology, and etiology, as well as shows how these aspects of medicine (although not yet formalized as independent disciplines) interacted with and shaped one another. Physicians argued, for instance, about what properties might distinguish poison from other substances, how poison injured the human body, the nature of poisonous bodies, and the role of poison in spreading, and to some extent defining, disease. The way physicians debated these questions shows that poison was far from an obvious and uncontested category of substance, and their effort to understand it sheds new light on the relationship between natural philosophy and medicine in the late medieval and early modern periods.
The Cyclopædia of Practical Medicine; Comprising Treatises on the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Medical Jurisprudence ... Edited by John Forbes ... Alexander Tweedie ... John Conolly
Author: Manual of Toxicology
Author: Rudolph August WitthausPublisher:
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Category : Forensic toxicology
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Annals of Medical History
Author: A Dictionary of Practical Medicine
Author: James CoplandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1738
Book Description
A Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
A Check List of Incunabula [medical] in the Surgeon General's Library
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Author: Champe Carter McCulloch (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Author: Philip WexlerPublisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128095598
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance provides an authoritative and fascinating exploration into the use of toxins and poisons in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Part of the History of Toxicology and Environmental Health series, this volume is a follow-up, chronologically, to the first two volumes which explored toxicology in antiquity. The book approximately covers the 1100s through the 1600s, delving into different aspects of toxicology, such as the contributions of scientific scholars of the time, sensational poisoners and poisoning cases, as well as myths. Historical figures, such as the Borgias and Catherine de Medici are discussed. Toxicologists, students, medical researchers, and those interested in the history of science will find insightful and relevant material in this volume. - Provides the historical background for understanding modern toxicology - Illustrates the ways previous civilizations learned to distinguish safe from hazardous substances, how to avoid them, and how to use them against enemies - Explores the way famous historical figures used toxins
The Sage of Seville
Author: Henry A. AzarPublisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774161551
Category : Medicine, Arab
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Ibn Zuhr (or Avenzoar) of twelfth-century Seville was the most important physician of Muslim Spain. His family boasted six generations of physicians, and also included midwives, jurists, poets, and viziers. His Kitab al-taysir, a compendium of therapeutics, was translated into Latin and Hebrew; its Latin version, Liber Teisir, served as a companion book to the Colliget, the Latin translation of Kitab al-kulliyat, a largely theoretical book of the philosopher-physician Ibn Rushd (Averroes). The rabbi-physician Maimonides quoted extensively from Ibn Zuhr and considered him "unique in his age and one of the great sages." But Ibn Zuhr was not just a keen observer of patients and a dispenser of remedies: buried within his generally dry narrative are candid recollections and views on a variety of subjects and of his society. And his medical recipes could be compared to current forms of alternative medicine. Together, his holistic approach to medicine and his spontaneous vignettes make him one of the most refreshing physicians of any age. This account of the life and legacy of Ibn Zuhr, the first of its kind, reveals the man and his world, his importance in his own times, and his relevance to our world today. Against a modern culture of often impersonal, bureaucratized, and costly health care, Ibn Zuhr's embodiment of the wisdom of the ages and his role as healer-priest can be an inspiration.