Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Wexler, Philip, 1950- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2017]
Series:History of toxicology and environmental health.
Subjects:
Toxicology > Europe > History.
Toxicology > Islamic countries > History.
Toxins > History.
Poisons > History.
Toxicology > history
Toxicologie > Europe > Histoire.
Toxicologie > Pays musulmans > Histoire.
Toxines > Histoire.
Poisons > Histoire.
MEDICAL > Pharmacology.
Poisons
Toxicology
Toxins
Europe
Islamic countries
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Poison and its dose : Paracelsus on toxicology / Urs Leo Gantenbein
  • The golden age of medieval Islamic toxicology / Mozhgan M. Ardestani, Roja Rahimi, Mohammad M. Esfahani, Omar Habbal and Mohammad Abdollahi
  • Maimonides' Book on poisons and the protection against lethal drugs / Gebriele Ferrario
  • Pietro d'Abano, De venenis : reintroducing Greek toxicology into late medieval medicine / Alain Touwaide
  • The case aginst the Borgias : motive, opportunity, and means / Cathy Cobb
  • Aqua Tofana / Mike Dash
  • Poisons and the prince : toxicology and statecraft at the Medici grand ducal court / Sheila Barker
  • Georgius Agricola, a pioneer in the toxic hazards of mining, and his influence / Sverre Langard
  • Jan Baptist Van Helmont and the medical-alchemical perspectives of poison / Georgiana D. Hedesan
  • Origin of myths related to curative, antidotal and other medicinal properties of animal "horns" in the Middle Ages / Chris Lavers
  • Animal stones and the Dark Age of bezoars / Marida do Sameiro Barroso
  • Fossil sharks' teeth as alexipharmics / Christopher J. Duffin
  • Catherine La Voisin : poisons and magic at the royal court of Louis XIV / Benedetta F. Duramy
  • A late medieval criminal prosecution for poisoning : the failed murder trial of Margarida de Portu (1396) / Caley McCarthy and Steven Bednarski
  • Animal venoms in the Middle Ages / Kathleen Walker-Meikle
  • Medical literature on poison, c. 1300-1600 / Frederick Gibbs.

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