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Quid pro quo: Studies in the History of Drugs [Kõva köide]

  • Formaat: Hardback, 330 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 770 g
  • Sari: Variorum Collected Studies
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Apr-1992
  • Kirjastus: Variorum
  • ISBN-10: 0860783197
  • ISBN-13: 9780860783190
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Hardback, 330 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 770 g
  • Sari: Variorum Collected Studies
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Apr-1992
  • Kirjastus: Variorum
  • ISBN-10: 0860783197
  • ISBN-13: 9780860783190
Teised raamatud teemal:
All too often ancient herbal and other remedies have been dismissed as simply folklore, of no relevance to medical science. John Riddles approach, however, has been to explore the history of drugs with the hypothesis that ancient and medieval medicines were effective - a methodology that he expounds in the final essay (hitherto unpublished). Indeed, he shows, both from detailed case-studies and from the comparison of the listings given by classical and medieval authorities with those in modern pharmacopoeias, that our ancestors had discovered and made effective use of many of the drugs used in medicine today, from antiseptics and analgesics to oral contraceptives, even chemotherapy for cancer. There is the suggestion, therefore, that more careful examination and identification of the drugs used in the past may reveal chemicals that can be exploited anew. Central to these studies is the investigation of how a drug was used and how knowledge about it was transmitted - and perhaps also distorted in the process - from the Classical world through the Middle Ages. Les anciens remèdes, phytothérapie et autres, ont trop souvent été mis aux rangs du folklore et considérés comme nayant aucun rapport avec la science médicale. Lapproche de John Riddle, cependant, a été dexplorer lhistoire des drogues, en prenant pour hypothèse lefficacité de la médecine ancienne et médiévale - une méthodologie quil expose dans son dernier essai (jusquà présent jamais publié). En effet, il démontre à partir de cas détudes détaillés et de la comparaison établie entre les listages fournis par les autorités antiques et médiévales et ceux des pharmacopées modernes, que nos ancêtres avaient découvert et mis à bon escient lutilisation de nombreux remèdes dont se sert la médecine à lheure actuelle: des antiseptiques et analgésiques, aux contraceptifs oraux et même jusquà la chimiothérapie pour le cancer. Sugge

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'...Riddles reading of medieval texts sheds welcome light on therapeutic practices of the distant past...[ there are] substantive contributions to the study of medieval medicine presented in this anthology.' Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 67

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 - lapidaries considered as medical texts; The Latin alphabetical Dioscorides manuscript group; Amber in ancient pharmacy: the transmission of information about a single drug; Theory and practice in medieval medicine; Book reviews, lectures, and marginal notes: three previously unknown 16th-century contributions 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; Indexes.
John M. Riddle, North Carolina State University, USA