Pharmacy and Drug Lore in Antiquity

Pharmacy and Drug Lore in Antiquity

Greece, Rome, Byzantium

Scarborough, John

Taylor & Francis Ltd

01/2010

384

Dura

Inglês

9780754659549

15 a 20 dias

870

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Contents: Preface; The pharmacology of sacred plants, herbs and roots; On medications for burns in classical antiquity; Theoretical assumptions in Hippocratic pharmacology; Theophrastus on herbals and herbal remedies; Nicander's toxicology, I: snakes; Nicanders toxicology, II: spiders, scorpions, insects and myriapods; The opium poppy in Hellenistic and Roman medicine; Roman pharmacy and the Eastern drug trade: some problems illustrated by the example of aloe; Pharmacy in Pliny's Natural History: some observations on substances and sources; The pharmacy of methodist medicine: the evidence of Soranus' Gynecology; Criton, physician to Trajan: historian and pharmacist; Pharmaceutical theory in Galen's commentaries on the Hippocratic epidemics: some observations on Roman views of Greek drug lore; Early Byzantine pharmacology; Herbs of the field and herbs of the garden in Byzantine medicinal pharmacy; Addenda and corrigenda; Indexes.
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