Quid pro quo : studies in the history of drugs /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Aldershot], Hampshire, Great Britain : Brookfield, Vt., USA :
Variorum ; Ashgate Pub. Co.,
[1992]
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| Series: | Collected studies ;
CS367. |
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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.