Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 1st Edition Wexler

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• ISBN 10:0128095598
• ISBN 13: 9780128095591
• Author:Philip Wexler

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.

Table contents:

Chapter 1. Poison and Its Dose: Paracelsus on Toxicology

Chapter 2. The Golden Age of Medieval Islamic Toxicology

Chapter 3. Maimonides’ Book on Poisons and the Protection Against Lethal Drugs

Chapter 4. Pietro d’Abano, De venenis: Reintroducing Greek Toxicology into Late Medieval Medicine

Chapter 5. The Case Against the Borgias: Motive, Opportunity, and Means

Chapter 6. Aqua Tofana

Chapter 7. Poisons and the Prince: Toxicology and Statecraft at the Medici Grand Ducal Court

Chapter 8. Georgius Agricola, a Pioneer in the Toxic Hazards of Mining, and His Influence

Chapter 9. Jan Baptist Van Helmont and the Medical–Alchemical Perspectives of Poison

Chapter 10. Origin of Myths Related to Curative, Antidotal and Other Medicinal Properties of Animal “Horns” in the Middle Ages

Chapter 11. Animal Stones and the Dark Age of Bezoars

Chapter 12. Fossil Sharks’ Teeth as Alexipharmics

Chapter 13. Catherine La Voisin: Poisons and Magic at the Royal Court of Louis XIV

Chapter 14. A Late Medieval Criminal Prosecution for Poisoning: The Failed Murder Trial of Margarida de Portu (1396)

Chapter 15. Animal Venoms in the Middle Ages

Chapter 16. Medical Literature on Poison, c. 1300–1600

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