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Title "It all depends on the dose" : poisons and medicines in European history / edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham and Jon Arrizabalaga
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018
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Description 1 online resource
Series The history of medicine in context
History of medicine in context.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Deadly medicine; 1 Poisons in the historic medicine cabinet; 2 "First Behead Your Viper": Acquiring knowledge in Galen's poison stories; 3 Mining for poison in a devout heart: Dissective practices and poisoning in late medieval Europe; 4 Pestis Manufacta: Plague, poisons and fear in mid-fourteenth-century Europe; 5 Alchemy, potency, imagination: Paracelsus's theories of poison
6 Martin Luther on the poison of sexual abstinence and the poison of the pox: From Galen to Paracelsus7 Poisoning as politics: The Italian Renaissance courts; 8 Gender, poison, and antidotes in early modern Europe; 9 Mateu Orfila (1787-1853) and nineteenth-century toxicology; 10 Mercury: "One of the Most Valuable Drugs We Have" (1937); 11 Collateral benefits : Ergot, botulism, Salmonella and their therapeutic applications since 1800
Summary This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book looks at important moments in the history of the relationship between poisons and medicines in European history, from Roman times, with the Greek physician Galen, through the Renaissance and the maverick physician Paracelsus, to the present, when poisons are actively being turned into beneficial medicines
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 19, 2018)
Subject Drugs -- Toxicology -- Europe -- History
Poisons -- Europe -- History
Drugs -- Dose-response relationship.
Toxicology -- history
Pharmaceutical Preparations -- history
Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions -- history
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
MEDICAL / Pharmacology.
Drugs -- Dose-response relationship
Drugs -- Toxicology
Poisons
SUBJECT Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631
Europe
Subject Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Grell, Ole Peter, editor
Cunningham, Andrew, editor
Arrizabalaga, Jon, editor
LC no. 2017059064
ISBN 9781315521077
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