The Poison Trials : Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science /
In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived-the other died in agony. In sixteenth-century Europe, this and more than a dozen...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2021]
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Colección: | Synthesis
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Caravita's Oil
- Part One: Authorities
- Part Two: Experiments
- Part Three: Wonder Drugs
- Conclusion: Testing and Testimony: Orviétan
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index