UID:
edoccha_9959148198002883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 174 pages) :
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illustrations (some color), portraits.
ISBN:
0-12-809559-8
Series Statement:
History of Toxicology and Environmental Health Series
Content:
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.
Note:
ch. 1. Poison and its dose : Paracelsus on toxicology / Urs Leo Gantenbein -- ch. 2. The golden age of medieval Islamic toxicology / Mozhgan M. Ardestani [and four others] -- ch. 3. Maimonides' Book on poisons and the protection against lethal drugs / Gebriele Ferrario -- ch. 4. Pietro d'Abano, De venenis : reintroducing Greek toxicology into late medieval medicine / Alain Touwaide -- ch. 5. The case aginst the Borgias : motive, opportunity, and means / Cathy Cobb -- ch. 6. Aqua Tofana / Mike Dash -- ch. 7. Poisons and the prince : toxicology and statecraft at the Medici grand ducal court / Sheila Barker -- ch. 8. Georgius Agricola, a pioneer in the toxic hazards of mining, and his influence / Sverre Langard -- ch. 9. Jan Baptist Van Helmont and the medical-alchemical perspectives of poison / Georgiana D. Hedesan -- ch. 10. Origin of myths related to curative, antidotal and other medicinal properties of animal "horns" in the Middle Ages / Chris Lavers -- ch. 11. Animal stones and the Dark Age of bezoars / Marida do Sameiro Barroso -- ch. 12. Fossil sharks' teeth as alexipharmics / Christopher J. Duffin -- ch. 13. Catherine La Voisin : poisons and magic at the royal court of Louis XIV / Benedetta F. Duramy -- ch. 14. A late medieval criminal prosecution for poisoning : the failed murder trial of Margarida de Portu (1396) / Caley McCarthy and Steven Bednarski -- ch. 15. Animal venoms in the Middle Ages / Kathleen Walker-Meikle -- ch. 16. Medical literature on poison, c. 1300-1600 / Frederick Gibbs.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-809554-7
Language:
English
