Quid pro quo : studies in the history of drugs /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Riddle, John M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Aldershot], Hampshire, Great Britain : Brookfield, Vt., USA : Variorum ; Ashgate Pub. Co., [1992]
Series:Collected studies ; CS367.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Pomum ambrae: Amber and ambergris in plague remedies
  • The introduction and use of eastern drugs in the early middle ages
  • Lithotherapy in the middle ages... Lapidries considered as medical texts
  • The latin alphabetical dioscorides manuscript group
  • Amber in ancient pharmacy. The transmission of information about a single drug. A case study
  • Theory and practice in medieval medicine
  • Book reviews, lectures and marginal notes. Three previously unknown sixteenth-century contributors to pharmacy, medicine and botany-ioannes manardus, franciscus frigimelica and melchior guilandinus.
  • Albert on stones and minerals
  • Pseudo-dioscorides'ex herbis femininis and early medieval medical botany
  • Gargilius Martialis as a medical writer
  • The pseudo-Hippocratic dynamidia
  • Ancient and medieval chemotherapy for cancer
  • Byzantine commentaries on dioscorides
  • Folk tradition and folk medicine
  • Recognition of drugs in classical antiquity
  • Methodology of historical drug research.